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both inoculations not one took the disease. sum-
individual house records are also sighihchh'. :"
ono house 4 out Of were lnocuiaten' '"e "
moincd well. while OF the other dlcd. III III"
otber house q out Of were inocuated ana IT,
maincl immune while OF the othcr "ie"
In 81 third house ont Of > were noculated' Ill
,jvcJ together i'm one room: the remained wen
,rhi,o fine died of ciolcrl. In yet another
house 6 ont Of were inoculated and had no
cholera. while the seventh died OF 1t.
Nor w,s tbe work Of Or. IIafTknc confined
10 Calcutta Cholera broke out in the Jail at
eva. After 6 cases and deaths had occurred
he inocuate1 half the prisoners IN eisit III!
thereafter there were among the uhihocuia'eu
20 cases and 10 deaths, and among me inocu
lated 3 cases and deaths and AFTER the eish'iI
day cases and deaths among the former' anu
not one among the latter. AT Cawnpore among
7o7 uninoculated there were 10 cases anu j"
deaths and among - lnocu.atcd not one ~
Dinapore among 729 uninocuatcd there were
6 cases and 3 deaths. and among lo3 inocuiatea
not one At Karkurie 203 unlnocuated, WIN
:, cases and deaths: and 400 inoculated. WIN
/ case which proved fatal but which occtrrei
before the second incubation AT kalain, l'5''
uninoculated. with % eases and I'D deaihs' anu
cS1 inoculated with . cases and dcatn DOM
occurring before second incubation. AT Chlr-
cola. 1907 unlnoculatcd. with cases ara
dooth: and POI inoculatcd. with not single
case In MI India more than 10000 persons
roceivcd both inocrlatiOns: they were all direct
" cxposed TO the cOntagon Of cholera: but not
single case of the disease occurred among them,
and not 4 single bad effect Of the treatment was
observed we do not know Of Il moro notably
successful achievement in all the history Of the
healing art It promises speedy fuiment OF
the prophecy made by compatrfot OF Pasteur.
that "in Berlin. in London, In Partisan IN
Calcutta. too-"mon will not die Of diphthera,
.of typhod Of scarlet fever Of cholera. OF tn
tuberculosis. any more than they die in those
"cities to-day Of the venom Of snakes or OF The
"biie Of wolves"
The record Of this unprecedented work comes,
rs we have said. most fitngly to hand just at
this time For Dr. IIaffliinc was particularly
intimate disciple and colleague Of Pasteur They
worked together on the anti-choleraic virus in
the Pastcur Institute at Paris. When all was
ready. and Or. Haffkne was about to 90 to
India on his mission of healing. Pasteur made
appeal to the British Government for financial
aid in his behalf That appeal was not granted.
Thcreupon Pastcur from his own slender re-
sources added enough to DR.. Hankines own
meagrc means to enable him to proceed with his
work. Now Dr. Iaffkine has returned home.
lust in time to mourn at his friend and masters
bier He is impoverished in purse and hope
lessly broken in health but hc is triumphant
over the worst of plaques. In those particulars
he is true disciple Of that great Christian
scientist who. after lifetime of feeble health,
died in Il poor bare garrett and left TO his heirs
little material wealth. but who left to humanity
the knowledge and the power TO rob surgery OF
its worst terror and to make the deadliest dis
eases vanish from the world.