The Cultivation of Tissues of the Chick-Embryo Outside the Body

The remedy stays the destructive and onward march of syphilitic ulcérations and canees their healing in a surprisingly short time.4. It is more rapid in its effect on specific disease than any other known remedy.5. It is likely to prove more valuable than any other remedy in the treatment of the specific diseases of most internal organs.6.It cannot replace cicatricial tissue, the result of Nature's reparative processes; neither does it affect favorably chronic degenerative diseases of the nervous system, such as paresis, system-diseases of the cord, in which there is a break in the continuity of nerve struc¬ ture, though in some eases it seems to influence favor¬ ably the continuous crises of locomotor ataxia.7. In all cases it causes a leukocytosis and the forma¬ tion of antibodies.8. It materially modifies, and in most cases ulti¬ mately negatives, the Wassermann reaction.9.It unquestionably floods the circulation with endo¬ toxins resulting from the death of millions of spiro¬ chetes, and in all probability an antitoxin is developed in the blood-serum.These facts must he thoroughly considered iii connection with the treatment.