289 the only position which was at all supportable for her was when she leaned over the back of a chair and remained hanging on it in a half-upright attitude for hours at a time, occasionally for five or six hours. By good fortune for the patient there was a member of her family who was strong enough to break up the conspiracy which had been formed against her life and my treatment, and the moment that the injections of cancroin were resumed the metritis gave way as if at the word of command

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... the patient began to recover her health. The tenesmus and dysuria vanished. The uterus, the fundus of which could not on its upper side be reached from the rectum, was once more able to be palpated, and in the beginning of October-i.e., after hardly four weeks of the resumed treatment with cancroin-it was again changed to a small, hard, uneven, globular mass, easily defined with the finger and no longer painful. Since that time the patient has had no pains ; she can move about quite well, can sit and lie down. and can empty her bladder and rectum without discomfort. Painful contractions of the uterus and painful micturition attended by cramps are occasionally felt, when the remnants of the cancer devitalised by the cancroin recover themselves ; but the intervals between these attacks become longer as time goes on. When the attack of cramp is over not the slightest sign of ill-health, either subjective or objective, is recognisable in the patient. She is therefore to be regarded not only as being in good health at the present time but as having been on two occasions saved by cancroin. Vienna.