Excerpt from American Medicine, Vol. 1 The improvement has been great, but neither the medical profession nor the. Public can afford to rest con tented. There can be no question but that the mortality rates are capable of still greater reduction. The means of bringing about this improvement are largely in the hands of the members of the medical profession and are indicated in Dr. Reynold's summary. The public needs further education in regard to sanitary matters and the medical profession needs to make more united efforts to bring about reforms in municipal legislation which will still further improve the efficiency of medical inspection of schools, the examination of the food, the bacterial diag nosis of disease and the improvement of water supply. A New Use for an Old Remedy. Dr. F. C. Gram, Registrar of the Buffalo Health Department, has observed that vaccination exerts an influence on grip not hitherto noticed by medical writers. The health-authorities of that city have just concluded a general vaccination, the work being done at a time when the city was in the throes of one of the fiercest epidemics of grip which it has had for years. Dr. Gram noticed that simultaneously with the manifestations of vaccination the grip disappeared. He then experimented on himself, as well as on others, in whom grip had been diagnosed, and in each case the disease was aborted, leaving the patient without any of those annoying and persistent sequels, which are some times worse than the disease itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.