ABSTRACT
Most educated people have a rough but fairly accurate idea of the methods employed by the bacteriologist in fighting disease. One might, of course, have tried experiments on a rabbit first, and some work had been done along those lines; but it is difficult to be sure how a rabbit feels at any time. Indeed, many rabbits make no serious attempt to co-operate with one. Most rabbits get frightened, and to do the sort of things to a dog that one does to the average medical student requires a licence signed in triplicate by two archbishops. The medical profession have perhaps not always done all they might in educating the public in the facts of their science. No doubt this is partly due to a survival of the 'medicine man' tradition, but another reason is that a half-educated patient who tries to diagnose his own disease is often worse than a completely uneducated one.
