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mouth early, and thereby raising the power of the serum early 
and increasing the activity of the leucocytes, additional blood is 
brought to the parts or a hyperemia is established by the act of 
sucking the wound; the additional healing plasma brought to the 
parts would in itself be sufficient to cure a mild invasion. The 
dog, in licking and curing his wounds, does not establish a 
hyperemia. The soft, velvety tongue cleanses the wound, but by 
this very act he gives himself a dose of autogenous vaccine. If 
the clog sustain a punctured wound and it should go on to infec¬ 
tion, he will not be able to get the discharge in his mouth till it 
comes to the surface; then when he licks it, it will go on to heal¬ 
ing, for he then gets in his mouth all of the toxic substances de¬ 
veloped during the course of the infection, against which the tis¬ 
sues react in a curative manner. 
2. Acne Vulgaris. —Is readily amenable to this treatment. 
The writer has a record of ten cases of chronic acnevulgaris hav¬ 
ing been cured by placing the discharge from the lesion in the 
mouth. Remember the dilution for aggravations. 
3. Many forms of skin lesions, and their corresponding in¬ 
ternal trouble. 
4. Many forms of local skin lesions or diseases. 
5. Boils, readily cured. 
• 6. Abscesses, readily cured. 
7. Adenitis, when due to many forms of bacteria. 
8. Septicemia. The writer has a record of a case of puer¬ 
peral septicemia that appeared to be cured by placing the patienCs 
own milk in her mouth. Of course, the same element of doubt 
that always enters into any single case must enter here. Clinical 
experience alone will determine whether this was a “ coincidence 
of time or a sequence of events.” 
The vaginal discharge would tend to be more curative, for by 
giving this we would be more liable to obtain the toxic product 
of the disease, for this is the route by which nature tends to elim¬ 
inate the toxic products from the system. At the writer’s sug¬ 
gestion, Dr. Freeman cured a case of puerperal septicemia by 
placing a weak dilution of the lochia in the mouth. The writer 
