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“I want to know what you have been doing to my chair upstairs,” she demanded. “And I

want to know how it is you came out of an empty room and how you entered a locked room.”
The scientist was always quick-tempered; now he became furious .

“You don’t understand who and what I am!” he shouted, “Very well – I’ll show you.”

Suddenly, he threw off bandages, whiskers, spectacles and even nose. It took him only a
minute to do this. The horrified people in the bar found themselves staring at a
headless man.

Mr Jaffers, the constable, now arrived and was quite surprised to find that he had to

arrest a man without a head. But, Jaffers was not easily prevented from doing his duty. If a
magistrate’s warrant ordered a person’s arrest, then that person had to be arrested, with or
without his head.

There followed a remarkable scene as the
remarkable : worthy of being noticed
policeman tried to get hold of a man who was nervous : frightened
becoming more and more invisible as he threw off unconscious : senseless

one garment after another. Finally, a shirt flew into
the air and the constable found himself struggling with someone he could not see at all.
Some people tried to help him, but found themselves hit by blows that seemed to come
from nowhere.

In the end, Jaffers was knocked unconscious as he made a last attempt to hold on the
unseen scientist.

There were nervous , excited cries of “Hold him!” But this was easier to say than to do.
Griffin had shaken himself free and no one knew where to lay a hand on him.

Until the twentieth century, infectious diseases were the leading cause of death and
disability worldwide and this is still the case in much of the developing world.
Immunisation has played a central role in radically reducing the incidence of many
dangerous diseases and some diseases have been wiped out entirely (e.g. smallpox) or are
well on the way to being so (e.g. polio). Vaccines have saved many lives and will save
many more in the future, as new vaccines are developed giving protection against more
diseases.
To know more about important vaccines visit the following website.

vk.org.ox.ac.uk/vaccines

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