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increasing one-half minim every other day until seven minims 

 were given; then dose every fifth day, seven and one-half minims 

 per dose. Still on Proteal No. 45, fifteen minim dose. Result 

 after ninety days: Reduction in temperature from 103-104^2 to 

 99-100^. No more night sweats. No cough. Increased appe- 

 tite and weight. Haemoglobin increase to 90 per cent., red cor- 

 puscles to 4,200,000. Considerable fibrosis of both lungs. 



(2) Mrs. H. F., age 35. Pulmonary tuberculosis with pleu- 

 risy, two years' standing, left side. Involvement of apex of right 

 lung and entire left pleura. Proteal treatment began with four 

 minims No. 45, increasing one minim every third day till seven 

 minims were given ; then repeating same dose every five days for 

 three to four doses before increasing dosage one minim again. 

 Still on Proteal No. 45, fourteen minim doses. Result after 

 ninety days : Right apex clear of rales, moisture, and all symp- 

 toms of infection. One-half left pleura clearing up. Reduction 

 of temperature, gradually, from 102-103^2 to normal. Increased 

 appetite. Able to lie on left side for the first time in two years. 

 Blood picture improved to nearly normal. All symptoms im- 

 proved. 



(3) Mrs. C. D. E., age 20. Pulmonary tuberculosis. Both 

 upper lobes involved. Proteal treatment began with three 

 minims No. 45, increasing one minim every other day till eight 

 minims were given ; then the same dose every third day for three 

 or four doses, after which the dose increased one minim, etc. 

 Result of treatment after ninety days: Temperature normal. 

 Cough decreased. Blood picture same as before treatment. 



Such observations as these are certainly stimulative. I have in 

 hand a considerable body of similar testimony from physicians 

 in various parts of the country, and fresh evidence' comes to me 

 week by week. The experience of these associated physicians, 

 coupled with my personal observations, appears to me to justify 

 the hope that in the Proteals we have new weapons to aid the 

 physician in coping with a malady which, although measurably 

 checked in onslaught in recent years, still has a mortality rate 

 of about 145 per hundred thousand population a malady of 

 which, otherwise stated, claims about 145,000 victims in a year in 

 the United States alone and not far from a million in the civilized 

 world. 



It will be understood, of course, that no suggestion is made 

 that the Proteals exercise a specific function in combating the 

 tubercular condition. Their action here, as elsewhere, is directly 

 on the blood-forming organs in accordance with the fundamental 

 principles of antigenic response. But the secondary effect on 

 the intruding protein masses constituting areas of infection in 

 the lungs or elsewhere is so natural a consequence that it might 



