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Frost obtained favorable results in arthritis 

 and epididymitis with polyvalent vaccines. 

 Baetz treated 28 cases of gonorrheal arthritis 

 in the Canal Zone. He concludes that vaccine 

 treatment gave very good, sometimes brilliant, 

 results in the majority of cases. Unfavorable 

 results due to treatment were not noticed. The 

 average number of days' treatment per patient 

 was twenty-four. 



The most favorable cases are those in which 

 lesions are subacute, and in which secondary 

 anatomic changes are limited. It should be 

 obvious that in cases of long standing with dis- 

 organization of joint structure, all that can be 

 obtained by specific measures is the prevention 

 of new infections; and, that the repair of the 

 joints, if at all possible, must come from other 

 agencies. Schultz saw prompt improvement in 

 11 out of 16 cases of arthritis and concludes that 

 the treatment is specific, as shown by focal, lo- 

 cal and general reactions; and cases reacting 

 with fever do better than those which show no 

 reaction. 



Epididymitis Many series of cases of epi- 

 didymitis are on record in which vaccines are 

 credited with hastening the cure. Klause has 



