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igan to enlarge and feel painful. It gradually grew larger and 
larger, and then the lymphatics from it became similarly in¬ 
volved. Some days later Dr. Greenway, one of my physic- 
cians there, discovered adenites in some glands of the neck. 
He and Dr. Gaines, who had charge of the case, can testify to 
this condition. The glands remained so for three weeks, and 
during all that time the temperature was one or two degrees 
above normal at times and normal at others. A day or two 
after the healing of the first bud on the wrist, another one 
grew, about one quarter of an inch from it, and directly in the 
primitive irritated line. It became red one day, and next 
morning it was beginning to fill and it was at once cauterized 
before virus was sufficient to gather, and indeed I was by that 
time in no mood to wait for virus to be in sufficient abun¬ 
dance, or for pipettes or vial to gather the infernal poison, if 
such it was. So I failed to make any inoculative tests or mi¬ 
croscopic study to ascertain the nature of the disease. The 
last ulcer was rebellious. It took six weeks to heal it. It 
finally coalesced with the mark of the first one and now there 
is on my wrist but one cicatrix which will probably always 
show, and there remains a slightly indurated but painless 
gland at the right elbow. The treatment consisted of iodide 
of potassium from the fourth day after inoculation to the end 
of six weeks, and then Fowler’s solution of arsenic for a 
few weeks longer. I began the iodide of potassium at the 
dose of ten grains three times a day, and in three weeks 
I was taking eighty-five grains (85) three times a day, or 255 
grains daily. Besides this I was treated with mercury in lo¬ 
cal frictions—one dram of the officinal ointment daily, until 
constitutional effects were apparent. In order to correct the 
injurious effects of the potassium on the stomach and head, 
I took with it bi-carbonate of soda for the first, and a few 
drops of tinct. of bellad. for the last correction. I took hot 
baths every day, and perspired one to three hours each time. 
By this means the kidneys did not have to eliminate all the 
strong medicines and they stood treatment well. After I 
returned home I continued treatment, gradually lessening the 
dose, and finally dropped the potassium and used Fowler’s 
