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NOTWITHSTANDING the amount of labour which Mr. Candler has expended upon this work, and the ingenuity of some of his hypotheses, we cannot but think that his method might almost be taken as an example of how an inquiry of this kind ought not to be conducted. The author starts with an account of the observations of Dr. Salisbury, an American physician, published in 1862, by which he claimed to have established that a disease called “camp measles,” prevalent among American soldiers, was produced by infection with certain fungi derived from musty straw. Salisbury cautiously abstained from positively asserting that the disease was identical with common measles, but said he could see no difference between them; and that an attack of the former protected from the latter. If the diseases were identical, his explanation applied to common measles.
The Prevention of Measles.
By C. Candler. (Melbourne, Victoria. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1889.)
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P., J. Measles and Straw-Fungi. Nature 42, 243 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042243a0
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