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weeks, the number of injections averaging about 3. Scholz and Kraus 

 and Miiller also report favorable results from milk and aolan injec- 

 tions. Loeb used "leukogen," a staphylococcus vaccine of which large 

 doses are injected, with success. Antoni found "aolan" satisfactory in 

 trichophyton infection. Sellei, in comparing the value of milk and 

 turpentine injections, found that the milk effect was more sustained 

 and continuous. He obtained very satisfactory results in universal 

 pruritus, and in superficial skin suppurations; in the deeper lesions the 

 effect was less apparent. In eczema he obtained no results. 



The work of Engmann and McGarry, of Scully and of Van Alstyne 

 in the treatment of psoriasis has already been mentioned. Cemach has 

 used tuberculomucin in one case with favorable results, while Konte- 

 schweller calls attention to the fact that all colloidal injections, just 

 as vaccines and heterovaccines, act on the general system of the 

 patient and improve his physical condition and in so far are useful 

 in the treatment of psoriasis. It is just this fact that Sabouraud 

 emphasizes. He considers that the treatment of psoriasis has entered 

 on a new era of late with the discovery that certain measures which 

 have nothing in common, except that they all give a kind of 

 shake-up to the organism, are proving effectual in certain cases, 

 although not in all. The list includes injection of mercurial salts, 

 of antitoxic serums, and of emulsions of killed microbes from the 

 patient's stools. He hopes that still more effecutal means of induc- 

 ing the shake-up or shock may yet be found. The field of experi- 

 mentation seems immense and almost unlimited. Sabouraud finds 

 Danysz' enterovaccine from the stools to be harmless, and great 

 improvement under it seems to occur in more cases and to last longer 

 than with any other measures yet known. 



In five cases that Cadbury treated with typhoid vaccine excellent 

 temporary results were obtained but they all relapsed sooner or later. 



Just as furunculosis has been very satisfactorily treated with vac- 

 cines of all kinds, so other and less specific methods of treatment 

 have been followed by considerable clinical success. Kaiser claims 

 results following the injection of "tebelon" (the isobutyl ester of oleic 

 acid), Schedler used turpentine injections, Morris and Levinson col- 

 loidal metals, and milk injections have also found extensive employ- 

 ment. 



The eczemas, both the dry and exudative types, have been more 

 or less resistant to nonspecific therapy. Spurgin tried salt infusion 

 without apparent effects, while Cadbury treated 4 cases with typhoid 

 vaccine and observed practically no improvement. 



A number of other skin lesions have given more promise of suc- 

 cess. Schrameck reports a case of pemphigus treated successfully; 

 Cadbury treated two cases of lichen planus with typhoid vaccine which 

 improved and one case of erythema nodosum which was cured after 

 two injections. Hebermann was successful in the treatment of hys- 



