Excerpt from A Vindication of Vivisection: A Course of Lectures on Animal Experimentation, by Men of the Highest Authority in the Medical and Other Professions Beginning with a tribute to the pioneer work of Pasteur, Koch and other pioneer-research workers, the lecturer traced the various steps in the development of the great branch of bacteriology that em braces all that we know of the cause, the prevention and treatment of all infectious diseases, including serums and vaccines, and ends at the present time with the researches by Noguchi on the organism of yellow fever 'sas an instance of the curative powers of antitoxins he cited the vast reduction in mortality following the employment of diphtheria antitoxin, which is now less than one quarter of the death rate before the introduction of the antitoxin. 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.