Fluctuations of the counts of eosinophile leucocytes in the circulating blood were observed by men, rats and rabbits. Results were as follows:
1) In men:
a) Eosinophile counts increase with age.
b) Eosinophile counts were higher in the early morning and at night than the other time, especially, the counts were the lowest at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Range of the fluctuation increases with age.
c) As for the fluctuation by season, the counts of eosinophile were higher in the spring and autumn than that counted in the winter and summer.
2) In rats and rabbits, fluctuations of the counts of eosinophile leucocytes by locality of sampling were investigated.
a) No difference was observed between the counts made from peripheral blood and the counts from the blood of large venous vessel.
b) The counts of eosinophile leucocytes were low when the sample was taken from such blood that had passed through the lung.
c) No change was observed in the eosinophile counts made from the samples taken from the blood stream pre-spleen and post-spleen.

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Occurrence of the infection from trichomonas elongata was investigated in 100 cases of tuberculosis patients who had no dental complaint. It was found that in 16% of them the infection was recognized, and that the occurrence was high in those cases that had tartar or pyorrheal objective findings.
As to the pH value of saliva, those cases that were infected from trichomonas elongata had the pH value ranging from 5.8 to 6.4 (6.0 in the average). The result is in accordance with the fact that acid media are preffered by trichomonas elongata.

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The present paper deals with follow up study on 546 pulmonary tuberculosis cases, discharged from the sanatorium as arrested or inactive, during the period from 1946 to 1954. The 546 cases are classified into 3 groups: work therapy group, 218 cases; walk therapy group, 138 cases and rest therapy group, 190 cases, by the time of discharge. Results are as follows:
1) No significant differences were found by group as to prognosis in case of minimal cases.
2) In cases with cavities by x-ray examination, their prognosis were not good even in the work therapy group.
3) Cases treated by thoracoplasty showed better prognosis than that of pneumothorax or of rest therapy. Additional work therapy did not show difference in this category.
4) Rate of worse prognosis was higher (27.1%) in cases of positive TB bacilli in sputa culture than in cases of negative cases (14, 3%).
5) Rate of worse prognosis of the total cases by 10 years was 21.9%, including 4.4% of fatal cases. No significant differences were found by group, and by sex.
6) The worse prognosis included 66.7% of worse x-ray picture, 4.4% of increase of positive bacilli and 13.3% of worse subjective symptoms.
7) No significant differences were found by occupation of post-discharge period.
8) Rate of re-employment was high (91.4%) in the work group and that of other groups was 76.0%.

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The present paper deals with the 30 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis patients treated with chlorpromazine for the artificial hibernation at the lobectomy. Results were as follows:
1) The patients had no terror or anxiety, since they had been under dormant state before entering into the operation room.
2) In half of the total cases, rate of respiration was 20-5 per minute, pals rate was 90-100 per minute and all the cases showed the depression of the maximum blood pressure.
3) Dosis medicamentosa of anesthetization required satisfactorily small quantity.
4) Cases, in which the anesthetization continued for 24 hours after the operation, complained no pain in the first day, and slightly of pain and of difficulty of exclusion of sputum, in the second day. Cases, in which the anesthetization continued for 12 hours, complained slightly of pain at the end of the first day, however, they had no difficulty in the exclusion of sputum, and had smaller amount of bleeding than the former.
5) Management of anesthetization was safely conducted and the patients had little pain after operation.
6) The authors confirmed that the artificial hibernation in the anesthetization at lobectomy is recommendable.

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