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filaments were highly refractive, transparent, and homogeneous 

 throughout, having no perceptible transverse markings, or line of 

 demarcation between the outer wall and contents. The filaments 

 were of uniform diameter throughout, and had the peculiarity of 

 having abrupt extremities. The spores (fig. 1), and embryonic 

 filaments (figs. 2, 3, 4) were found in multitudes everywhere through 

 the diseased tissue. The glands in the groin were slightly enlar- 

 ged and tender. Examined the blood carefully; could find no 

 trace of the filaments or spores of the C. syphilitica. Prescribed 

 as follows: — B,. — Dilute citrine ointment ^j; Venice turpen- 

 tine 3ij — M. S — Apply to chancre morning, noon, and night, after 

 carefully washing. 1^ • — Potass, iodid. 3vj ; tr. cinchona comp, ^vj ; 

 sulphur 5iij- — M. S. — Take a teaspoonful before each meal. li-. 

 — Acid, nitro-muriatic. dil. Jvj; quiniae sulphat. güj- — M. S. — 

 Put a teaspoonful in half a pint of warm water, and wash the 

 body and limbs all over every night on retiring, and wipe dry 

 after. I^. — Pil. hydrarg. prot. iodid. V^ gr. each. No. xxx. S. — 

 Take a pill two hours after each meal. B^^. — Potass, acetat. ^i^s; 

 potass, nitrat. gss; aq. camphor, ^'^ij. — M. S. — Take a tables- 

 poonful in a glass of water at night on retiring. 



On the eighth day after cauterizing, the chancre was entirely 

 healed, and glandular enlargem.ents in groin nearly gone. On 

 examining the blood carefully again, I found the spores and short 

 filaments of the C. syphilitica in it in considerable quantity. Con- 

 tinued the treatment for two weeks more; then dropped the mer- 

 curial, and gave in its place a two-grain quinia pill, and twenty 

 drops of tr. ferri chlorid. in a full glass of water. 



This treatment was continued, with slight variation, for a little 

 owcr two months, at which time no trace of the C. syphilitica 

 could be discovered in the blood. The iron and quinia are be- 

 lieved to have an important influence in preventing this vegetation 

 from producing spores, and in checking the development of the 

 filaments from spores, from the fact that by the free use of these 

 agents with the ordinary treatment, this vegetation disappeared 

 much more rapidly than when they were not used. They have 

 this effect upon the vegetation of intermittent fever, and they also 

 rapidly destroy the Zymotosis translucens, which is so abundantly 

 present in anaemia, in tubercular conditions, and in inflammatory 

 rheumatism. 



Case II. — Mr. K. called April 7, 1867; age, 33; a strong, power- 



