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abscesses, etc., with Wright's solution (one and a half 

 per cent, sodium citrate in five per cent, saline), in- 

 cision, citric acid to decrease the viscosity of the blood, 

 nuclein and eliminants and tonics directed to the in- 

 testinal tract, kidneys, skin and liver, become indis- 

 pensable adjuvants, converting an otherwise sure fail- 

 ure into natural victory. 



Application and Results of Bacterial Inoculations 

 in Special Diseases. — During the past decade, owing 

 to the opsonic tidal wave and the resultant interest in 

 bacterial inoculation, injections of killed bacteria have 

 been made, both in a protective and curative capacity, 

 in almost all infections or infectious diseases to which 

 man falls heir. There is not a system in the human 

 organism to which bacterin therapy has not been found 

 applicable. Just as was the case with tuberculin 

 therapy in the early nineties, the therapeutic pendu- 

 lum swung too far, but to-day the cordon is being 

 drawn tighter and tighter around those specific dis- 

 eases amenable to this form of therapy and year by 

 year the indications and contra-indications and modus 

 operandi become better known and the doctrine of bac- 

 terial inoculation more intelligently engrafted. 



Diseases of the Skin and Soft Parts 

 This group, comprising acne, boils, carbuncles, 

 abscesses, ulcers, cellulitis, dermatitis, impetigo, syco- 

 sis, sinus, fistula, tuberculosis, glanders, actinomycosis, 



