HODGKIN'S DISEASE. — Recent obser vations tend to show that bone-marrow may become a valuable remedy in certain forms of Hodgkin's disease.
Case of Hodgkin's disease at first placed on one fresh sheep's thyroid daily.
Tiring of them, the patient was placed upon extract of bone-mairow and thy roid. From this time on there was rapid amelioration in all of the symptoms. The cough and night-sweats ceased and the glands rapidly diminished in size. Six months later she reported herself as feeling quite as well as she did before her illness. The enlargement of the glands had all disappeared. M. B. Herman (Memphis Med. Monthly, Feb., '90).
Well-marked case of Hodgkin's disease, erratic temperature, varying from nor mal to 102.5° F. Patient put upon the usual arsenic treatment, beginning with 2 minims thrice daily, and gradually in creasing the dose until she was taking 7 minims three times a day of Fowler's solution, hut in spite of this she steadily and rapidly got worse, till at the end of five weeks she was a perfect skeleton, profoundly anemic, sleepless, and the group of glands affected so agglutinated that outlines of single glands were quite obliterated. The spleen was enlarged, temperature was almost constantly about 100° F., and her digestion failed com
pletely. The case seemed rapidly mov ing toward a fatal termination.
Although bone-marrow tabloids had previously been tried in a case of the same disease in an adult without the smallest benefit, they were used in this case beginning with 1, thrice daily. The vomiting and diarrhea soon ceased and the temperature was normal. This im provement steadily continued. The num ber of tabloids taken was gradually in .
creased, till at the end of a fortnight she was taking 6 in the day. After two months she was apparently in good health, although the submaxillary and one of the cervical glands were still large. The tabloids were finally stopped. A fortnight afterward she was once more somewhat anemic, and with the glands. which had subsided to normal, ap preciably enlarged: tabloids resumed; she still continues to take 3 a day, and is now a plump, healthy child, but she still presents slight enlargement of the subnzaxillary and one cervical gland. -T. D. L. Macalister (Brit. Med. Jour., Nov. 13, '97).