Excerpt from Clinical Bacteriology and Vaccine Therapy for Veterinary Surgeons IF Sir Almroth Wright's prophecy the physician of the future will be an immunizator - is true regarding the future attitude of the practitioner of human medicine towards sero vaccine therapy, I believe it may with equal truth be applied to the practitioner of veterinary medicine. Certainly there is as much scope for its application in the latter profession as in the former - nay, more: the human practitioner has difficulties and anxious problems to encounter which to the veterinary practitioner are unknown. Every medical man knows with what prejudice his patients look upon any new line of treatment, and particularly so if such treatment is being driven home at the point of the hypodermic needle. For the sake of his own reputation, he is often loath to rouse those latent feelings, with the result that he moves very cautiously sometimes too cautiously - to the detriment of his patient. Again, a doctor's patients are all possessed of a highly developed nervous system, where the influence of mind over matter is very pronounced, and where emotions and idiosyncrasies are greatly in evidence, requiring a strong personality and the comforting but forcible courage of the trusted physician to quieten; but all these qualifications sometimes avail little, the patient discarding the treatment without fair trial. Or, it may be by a sheer coincidence that after a dose of vaccine has been administered complications in the course of the disease supervene, and although they may have nothing whatever to do with the treatment. 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.