The Dose of Antitoxins
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? columns the tendency to draw far reaching conclusions on inadequate grounds purporting to be based on experimental data, I take the opportunity offered by Major Carr-Whiteis interesting paper " Is Antivenene of any value in Cobra Poisoning, in your current number to again draw attention to this important matter in relation to the anti-toxins, taking for illustration anti-venene, anti-tet ino-toxin, antistreptococcic serum and diphtheria anti-toxin. I do so the more readily that my position as Medical Store-keeper to Government, Punjab Command, lias laid
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