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THE PREVENTION OF MEASLES.

By the same Autbor.

THE PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION.

A MODE OF PREVENTION FOUNDED ON A
NEW THEORY OF THE NATURE OF

THE TUBERCLE-BACILLUS.

Demy 8vo, cloth, 10s. 6d.

LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & Co., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE.

THE

PREVENTION OF MEASLES.

BY

C. CANDLER,

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA.

LONDON

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE,

1889.

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PREFACE.

THIS book may be held to be purely speculative in that its burden rests almost entirely upon old facts. The matters dealt with were long since made known, but were at once discredited, and were then so persistently and so sternly discountenanced that the whole subject finally fell into oblivion. I bring it forward again, because the judgment formerly pronounced would appear to have been arrived at on insufficient grounds by a tribunal strongly prepossessed against it for other than abstract reasons. Perhaps the time may not even yet be ripe for calm inquiry; for though an immense change has come over the views of the tribunal on such subjects, it may not have so far shaken off the restraints upon independent thought as to look at this question without some bias.

When Dr. Salisbury published his observations on the causation of measles (in 1862) the scientific mind of the day was utterly unprepared to receive them. They went so immeasurably beyond everything of the kind that had been done before that the whole research was regarded as apocryphal; and, besides, it was too repugnant to all that had been taught to be received with favour or even with equanimity. The schools of medicine, therefore, did not deign to inquire whether the observations had any foundation in fact, but contented themselves with

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