CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10] — Page 529

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In order to understand the principles which usderliethe

proper storage of Vaccine lymph in the Tropics and to see

in what direction we may be able to make further advance

I think we should apply to the matter the gemeralisation

of Herbert Spencer that- in any aggregate incident forces

work secondary redistributions easily when the contained

motion is a large in quantity and work them with increasing

difficulty as the contained mation ceases- remembering

however that we are dealing with a living organism.

Vaccine lymph is now, after cych dalay, preserved hy

checking its molecular motions by endking cooling to "ero

or lower and by increasing its viscosity with lanoline,

Cold storage is often not available in the tropics especially

during transit. Is lanoline the last thing as an excipient?

I am trying others. I use the rabbit to test and reinforce

vaccine.

-RATIN NO2.

I

was asked early in the year to do some experiments on tats with the above material. I found that wild house rats

mus decumanus and mus rattus ate it creedily and that it was very fatal to them. A group of seven that I especially