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trating wound likely to be infected with tetanus 

 organisms. In all of the above, echinacea is a minor 

 remedy for minor cases, or it is auxiliary to other 

 treatment. 



Septic laryngeal and pharyngeal affections may 

 often be treated successfully with it because it has 

 mild local anesthetic properties, and hence the drug 

 may be used in fair concentration. 



I do not believe echinacea possesses any specific 

 or definite influence upon the infectious diseases, 

 such as diphtheria, typhoid fever, or malaria; but 

 it may be a valuable agent to antagonize secondary 

 septic infection therein in some cases. 



I have thought it exerted such an influence in 

 numerous cases in which I have used it; but have no 

 definite proof that it did, for I place little reliance 

 in apparent good results in ordinary clinical usage 

 my own or others without definite control and 

 most discriminating observation under hospital con- 

 ditions. 



Symptomatically, in numerous cases of glandular 

 troubles and other difficulties usually favorably in- 

 fluenced by a vegetable "alterative," I have noted 

 subsidence of symptoms under treatment by echi- 

 nacea. I do not believe it has any more influence 

 upon syphilis than do the other vegetable altera- 

 tives. 



I believe echinacea does promote the elimination 

 of toxins, but is, in no sense of the word, an anti- 

 toxin. 



Echinacea never renders unnecessary proper sur- 

 gical exploration or drainage, as in puerperal sepsis, 

 boils, carbuncles, abscesses, tetanus, etc. 



I have seen no marked effect from it in any malig- 



