Molluscum Contagiosum
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a common bath. Not much work has been done from the point of view of the treatment of the disease and the production of immunity so as to prevent epidemics which may be a serious menace in boarding schools. The disease is said to be self-limiting. Though this may be so it still runs a long course ?at least six months?and within that time there is the danger of infecting several people or of starting an epidemic if it occurs in that boarding school. Accepting the theory that molluscum is conveyed by a filter-passing virus and the infection a local one, the virus being confined to the molluscum nodules, I prepared a vaccine by emulsifying a nodule and killing the virus by formalin. The result of the injection of this vaccine
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