SOUNDING THE ANTITOXIN!
(See Dr. Robson Roose's excellent article on "The Spread of Diphtheria" in the Fortnightly Review for December, 1894.)
The Antitoxin sounds! "And what the doose Is Antitoxin?" cries the reader, lightly. But he'll not chaff if he reads Robson Roose Upon Diphtheria in the new Fortnightly. There he'll learn how the "Antitoxic serum" Attacks bacilli with a view to queer 'em.
The Antitoxin sounds to a new war On diphtheritic microbes, which are rum 'uns; And Doctor Roose, perched on Hygeia's car, Rides forth in battle-rig to spread the summons. Ah! the old conquerors were mere death-dealers, But greatest of Earth's heroes are the healers!
Their war is on man's foes, not on mankind. Hygeia is Humanity's "Little Sister." Funds for her service, though, 'tis hard to find; Hence this appeal of good Sir Joseph Lister[1] For money-aid, successfully to urge The war of the new cure on the new scourge.
It spreads, it strikes, it slays our little ones In legions; deaths in twenty years it doubles; Now Löffler, Klebs, Roux, Yersin, all great guns, Attack the toxic source of dread throat-troubles, As Robson Roose explains. Read—and remember— All in the new Fortnightly for December!
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