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ease; while if infection occurs through wounds of the 

 hand, the buboes appear first in the axillary region. 

 As a rule, the wound through which infection is re- 

 ceived shows little or no inflammatory reaction. 1 



1 The works of Yersin, of Kitasato, and of Aoyama have been exhaustively 

 reviewed by FJexner in the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, vol. v., 

 1894, p. 96, and vol. vii., 1896, p. 180. I am indebted to these reviews for much 

 that is here presented on this subject. 



