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proved feasible in the treatment of various infections. 

 It would appear advisable ofttimes when bacterin or 

 vaccine therapy is contra-indicated. It consists in an 

 endeavor to inoculate the patient from his own lesion 

 by purely physical measures. These include massage, 

 exercise, applications of heat, passive hyperaemia, etc.. 



TUBERCULO- 

 OPSONIC 



Fia. 37. — Case of tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis. Showing effects of massage 

 on tuberculo-opsonic indices. (Wright.) 



and explains wherein lies the diagnostic value of the 

 opsonic index, for example, in gonorrhoeal arthritis 

 (Figs. 33 and 36) , and in tuberculous cervical lymph- 

 adenitis (Fig. 37) . The production of induced auto- 

 inoculations may result in excessive dosage, as we 

 have no means to gauge, at the moment, the size of 



