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recommends this therapeutic proceeding highly. He has seen 
good results follow giving pathological discharges from the va¬ 
gina by the mouth, 3X dilution q. 2. h. for six doses in septic 
abortion. The auto-therapeutic, (or the Autopathic) treat¬ 
ment or safeguard in abortions would be to give the patient dilu¬ 
tions from her napkin by the mouth every time it was changed 
from the very beginning- 3X. q. 2. making a fresh supply from 
each napkin. (See case of aborted sepsis in another paragraph.) 
Wright, in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 
gives a case of puerperal septicemia that was complicated with 
acute nephritis, with blood in the urine. “ The vaccine was ob¬ 
tained from the vaginal discharge. It was found to be staphy¬ 
lococcus aureus, and coli organisms. The response was imme¬ 
diate, for the temperature in a few days became normal and she 
made an uninterrupted recovery. 1 ’ It is only going one step 
farther, to place a part of the menstrual discharge in the moutn 
to cure some forms of pelvic disorders. 
9. Burns.— Severe and deep burns may be cleaned from pus 
by placing the autogenous pus in the mouth. 
10. X-Ray Dermatitis. —Sir Almroth E. Wright says in 
the Proceeding's of the Royal Society: “It may, perhaps, seem 
to you that only a man who is riding a hobby to death would sug¬ 
gest that a bacterial factor entered into the pathology of X-ray 
dermatitis. I will confess that it had never occurred to me that 
this might be the case till I was asked to see an X-ray operator 
whose hands were in a terrible condition with cracks and ulcers. 
Cultures here disclosed the fact that we had to deal with an ex¬ 
tensive streptococcus infection, and the patient received great 
benefit from vaccine therapy, the intractable ulcers rapidly heal¬ 
ing up. I asked myself, in view of the burning quality of the 
pain in X-ray dermatitis and of the course that the disease runs, 
whether a streptococcus might often be an important factor in 
this complaint .” 
11. “Urinary Calculus. —Dr. Wright says: It is now per¬ 
fectly well understood that the formation of biliary calculi stands 
in connection with a coli infection of the biliary ducts and the 
