Medicaments ingested during twenty days ; re-appli¬ cation of the three-sided needles. A cure was effected. 2. A student, 22 years old, province of Satsuma, contracted three years previously a gonorrhea. One year after its cure the little finger of his right hand became anesthetic ; spots appeared on hands and feet and on the face. At last all the fingers of his right hand became crooked. His case was incurable because treatment had not been demanded in time ; his hand remained crooked, but the

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... acupunctures could still prevent the falling off of the nose and the droppings of his fingers. 3. A rich man's cousin, aged 25, of Nishioka vil¬ lage, a province of Yamishiro, had been a leper for five years. Half of his eyebrows had fallen ; his hands and feet were crooked; spots on face, feet and hands. Loss of feeling in both legs. The author visited this case in the leper village, ten miles from Kioto. He was atrophied, and the white crescents of the nails were absent; he had the usual flashing eyes ; the fingers were not crooked much. Although, by the author's rule, the case was incurable, as the patient had not subjected himself to the warm springs treatment, and as he was young and had what the