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. and many fa- 

 following the treatment of patients in various ways with 

 this and allied drugs. Of Is rs, how. ism 



videneed itself in numerous i a of con- 



siderable numbers of cases in which th 

 disappointing ae of various 



ring in the state hospitals of New York State, 

 where the number of patients benefit 5 



■ and I 1. 9, 



as only 15.9 per cent in 1920 and at in 



Intra-spinal :en up with g 



enth . :^e time of the announcement of : and 



.ad been obtained by the 

 introduction into the subdural spaces of the pati:::'- 

 own bio :n following th injection of 



At the clin- 



icians are using this form at in state hos 



practice — and it must be understood that in thi- 

 sion we are limi rh g juts to sa see oly a 



trac- senic can be found in t] oal fluid follow- 



ing intravenous injections of the arsenieals, and none 

 whatever in the brain substance (animal experiments 

 and investigation of cas sad from an I poison- 



In 1917 Wagner- Jaur egg of Vienna began to treat par- 

 with malarial infection upon the theory that the 

 violent reactions thus obtained in some manner mobilize 

 the def of the organism, and repor;- a 



number at that time t 



the hospital and doing well. At the present time re] 

 upon this method of treatment claim a high percent s 

 of remission- ially in the more incipier^ 



In May. 1923. Dr. Lorenz of Wisconsin with s e i 

 of workers (Journal of A. M. A. May 26th. 1923) rep 

 as h: - at of institutional e - 



improvement a: atment with tryparsamid. an ar- 



senical deri" - ty per cent 



of the bloo -ermanr :hirty per cent of the 



spinal fluid "Wassermanns became negative, — results 

 hei\ ained with any type of ::ent. 



