hii Annual Address. [February, 1912. 
splenic anemia seen in children in Italy and N. Africa accom- 
panied by enlargement of spleen and liver. 
7m A 
right lines, and much expenditure on useiess disinfection 
diverted to more efficient methods of prevention. plead for 
more workers for this and other equally grave diseases. 
Cholera.—The treatment of this terrible disease has ad- 
vanced considerably of recent time, principally through the 
same figure as in 1905. 
_ From 1908-1909 with hypertonic salines injected into the 
veins it fell to 32°6. Since then with the injection of the hyper- 
tonic salines plus permanganates, chiefly K. M. No. 3 an 
k That is, in simple language, whereas 
teen years ago on an average out of 100 attacks about 40 
rs 
most recent methods, and after he left, the Italian doctors sent 
Major. Rogers notes of 58 severe cases treated in the same way 
laid down as a result of his former Palermo experiences, with 
only 8 deaths, that is 15%, of deaths, or 85° of recoveries. 
ere 75% of recoveries by following the same methods. Are 
ese results wonderful ? and are they not strong evidence of 
