M. Beddow Bayly “Personally we are not obsessed with this oatmeal bogey, as, after all, rats–not humans– were the subjects of observation. Do not let us forget that humans are not rodents, and even so that the changes in their teeth are probably not quite the same as those found in dental caries in the human subject.
Practically their entire attention is devoted to laboratories in which animals are tortured in every conceivable way. In countless books, lectures and articles, we have been informed that tar cancer, aniline cancer, arsenic cancer, has been produced on thousands of miserable mice, rats and other laboratory animals.
Owing to the peculiar constitution of protein the appearance of the signs and symptoms of shock may be delayed months and even years, and the longer the delay the more difficulty grows the problem of combating them. may be seriously interfered with by the production of man-made milder infections.”
Not only are the clinical symptoms of the disease abated and the blood-picture restored to normal, but the toxaemic condition of the blood which lies at the root of the disorder is eradicated. “Most patients found it palatable and welcome it as a change from liver.”
the remarkably favourable results that followed the introduction of antitoxin in the nineties of last century were really due to a natural decline in the severity of the disease. “The whole subject of immunity is build upon an entirely false basis.”
There is a classical story related of the great John Hunter that when he was approached by Edward Jenner, and was falteringly informed by him that he thought he had a remedy against small- pox, he replied abruptly: “Dont think! The symptom usually arise some three to fourteen days after the injection of the serum.