Oct. i, 1920 



An Experimental Study of Echinacea Therapy 



January 16 case 96 was positive, while cases 94 and 95 did not show 

 trypanosomes. Case 96 died on the forty-eighth day after inoculation, 

 having received 7.8 mils of the remedy; case 95 succumbed on the sixty- 

 sixth day, after receiving a total of 10.8 mils of the remedy, and case 94 

 died on the seventy-first day, having received 1 1 .4 mils of the remedy. 

 The autopsies in these cases showed a dirty, dark discoloration of the 

 subcutaneous and superficial abdominal muscular tissues over the area 

 where injections were made. Extreme emaciation was evident, the 

 spleen was greatly enlarged, and in general the typical dourine picture 



was present. 



Experiment 3. — controls 



Four guinea pigs were used as controls. These were inoculated on the 

 same date as those in experiments 1 and 2 and were kept in separate cages. 

 One animal died in 17 days, another died in 30 days, and the remaining 2 

 died in 78 and 79 days, respectively, all with typical dourine symptoms. 



These experiments are reported in Table VIII. 



Table VIII.— Results of experiments with echinacea in the treatment of dourine 



