614 



TABLE IV. 



Effect of the subcutaneous injection of turpentine on cliemotaxis. 



Length of 4 1 e u oocyte co 1 u m ns 



L^^* ^^S- Right lee 



Before the injection ^flg^ the injection ofO.Scc 



ot NaU or ot Qf turpentine or NaCi 0.9% 



turpentine ^ " 



Difference 



thesis, turpentine has graduallj been remoNed from tlie place of 

 injection lo different parts of the body, also to the blood-vessels of 

 the leg where turpentine was imparted to the lymph, which had 

 a favourable effect on the cheraotaxis. 



Repeated Injeclion of turpentine in diluted solution. 



If this view was correct then it might be expected that an injection 

 of turpentine in a diluted solution, if repeated a few times, would 

 likewise effect an increased chemotaxis. 



This would, moreover, prove that the salutary therapeutic effect 

 of the turpentine would be entirely independent of the notion "abscès 

 de fixation". At the same time this might lead to the application of 

 turpentine in human pathology being resorted to more frequently, 

 for in spite of the success obtained by Fochier and others after him, 

 it is a wellknown fact that the subcutaneous injection is, if possible, 

 avoided because the sterile abscess, caused by it, is so extremely 

 painful. Indeed when we see how, after the abscess has existed for 

 some days, the mass taken out, which still smells of turpentine, is 



