Abstract
Perhaps no branch of medicine occupies so much of the thought of the medical profession to-day as infectious diseases. The manner of dealing with these has undergone great changes during the, last few years. The treatment is more satisfactory, and the prophylactic and preventive phases of treatment are most prominent. Since Jenner discovered the importance of vaccination as a preventive measure against smallpox the belief has prevailed in many minds, and hope in all, that some means might be discovered to reduce the terrors if not prevent the prevalence of all the diseases commonly known as infectious. Under improved hygienic precautions and more scientific methods of treatment this hope is beginning to be realized. Typhoid and malarial fevers are almost conquered, the specters of tuberculosis and diphtheria are beginning to pale and show evidences of vanishing, the terrible cases of scarlet fever are not so frequent, measleset al.are
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