Notes on Epidemiology with Special Reference to the Rôle of the Bacteriophage in Public Health
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Certain phenomena of infectious disease of intense importance and interest to the sani~ tarian. I refer particularly to the phenomena accompanying epidemics, their origin, their rise and their decline; and to the mechanism 0 recovery and immunity in cases of infectious disease. One aim which the sanitarian and health worker has in view is the prevention and eradication of infectious diseases and epidemi^ arising from them. The problems of epidenu0
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