The authors used 1% Chondroitin Sulphate to prevent the postoperative adhesion in the abdominal cavity. The animal experiments were performed on about 20 rabbits which confirmed that it is effective at least as long as one month and half after the operation.
Chondroitin Sulphate was administered clinically to 34 cases in surgical procedures which obtained fairly good results.

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Previously, for three cases, the author reported more than a hundred cases of incompatible transfusion (transfusion accidents). It was described that unmoderate transfusion consists of unindicated transfusion, bad transfusion and incompatible transfusion. And simultaneously the incompatible transfusion seems to happen on the basis of the antigenantibody reaction; for examples, ABO-heterotyped transfusion or Rh heterotyped transfusion and so on. Among them it is believed that there is some unknown antigen-antibody reaction causing incompatible transfusion.
Studies were made and were published on changes of antibody after incompatible transfusion had been made. Curves of bivalent (complete) antibody in normal saline water (Anti-A) and albumin water (Anti-B) gradually increased forming their peaks at about the 2nd or 3rd week, when they gradually decreased to a normal level. Univalent (incomplete) antibodies and hemolysin were found in serum of patient. At the same time by paperchromatograph the change of serumprotein was tested.

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The effect of cutaneo-respiratory reflex after bilateral vagotomy was less than that before vagotomy.
The lung vagus, therefore, accelerated effect of cutaneorespiratory reflex.

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In contrast with Ethanol (BA) the bactericidal action of Isopropanol (IPA) to the various organisms, with which we are most frequently contaminated, as investigated. The obtained results are as follows:
1) According to the species of organisms the concentration of IPA for bactericidal action differ. The highest degree of the concentration was required toward Micrococcus pyogenes var, aureus. However, the IPA was unable to destroy spore-bearing organism such as Bacillus subtilis.
2) As for bactericidal effects for Micrococcus pyogenes var. aureus, 30% concentrated IPA corresponds to 50% concentrated EA. The 25% concentrated IPA and the 40% concentrated EA were equal toward Shigella flexrneri, Proteus vulgaris, Escherichia coli, Aerobacter aerogenes, Alcaligenes faecalis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Judging from these various kinds of concentrations the bactericidal activity on IPA was about 1.6 times as strong as that of EA.
3) When the IPA concentration increases, its bactericidal effect does not decrease and 99% concentrated IPA destroys Salm. typhi and Micrococcus pyogenes var. aureus within 20 seconds. This to me, that different from BA, the bactericidal effect of IPA increases steadily as concentration approaches to 100%.
4) The 35% concentrated IPA is enough to kill Salm. typhi within 20 seconds, while the 45% concentration is enough to kill Micrococcus pyogenes var. aureus within the same time. Consequently, it is deemed that the 45% IPA solution is able to be employed as a substitute on the 70% EA solution for the purpose of surgical disinfection and antiseptic.
5) Against Bac, subtilis, IPA is not as powerful as EA, even with increasing concentrated solution. This fact reveals to me that IPA should not be relied upon to destroy pathogenic spore-bearing organisms such as Clostridium tetani, Clostridium welchii and Bacillus anthracis.
6) Through broth culture test, it is described that between pH 6.4 and pH 8.6 there is no different bactericidal effect on IPA solution. However, in the event of coexistence of plasma protein, pH 6.4 gives rise to the prolongation of bactericidal time, and if the pH is regulated to 8.6 the bactericidal action results in normal way.
Judging from these results, so far as the disinfection is concerned, it is economical to use IPA as a replacement of EA as IPA is not only inexpensive but it is about 1.6 times as powerful as EA. The IPA should be used in 45% concentration by volume.

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The author classified his pulmonary the patients and those with past anamnesis of pulmonary the according to Oka's classification of X-ray photography of chest, and while observing the HgI₂ reaction in urine of each type of patient, the author obtained the following results.
1) The type which showed strong reaction were types IIA, III and VII when their focuses spread in more than one lobus, and types VIIIA and II when they were within 7 days after pneumorectomy (thoracoplasty).
2) The types of medium reaction were I, IIB, IV, VIB and VIII which their focuses were restricted in one lobos.
3) The types of weak reaction, which in fact seemed almost normal, were types V, VIA, VIIIB, IX, X, etc.
4) Observing the factors in the change of HgI₂ reaction of pulmonary the patients, the author obtained the following results.
(1) The reaction value changed nearly in parallel with the extent of focus.
(2) When the focus was more exudative, the value was much higher; and when the focus tended to be proliferate and sclerotic, the value proved to be much lower.
(3) If cavities existed or bacilli were proved in the sputum, the value was usually high.
(4) When the patient had a fever, the value was high in general.
In other words, in those types which had more factors to signify the activity of the disease the reaction was much stronger, which, in the types with less factors, it tended to be much weaker.

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In the previous paper, a report was made on the effect of the treatment with antigène méthylique in tuberculous animals. In the recent experiment, the antigène méthylique used a mixture prepared from human tubercle bacilli (Aoyama B) and bovine tubercle bacilli or the antigène méthylique prepared from human tubercle bacilli (H37Rv). The infecting dose was 0.02mg (viable units 20×10⁵) of human tubercle bacilli (H37Rv).
Forty-five healthy guinea pigs were inoculated subcutaneously with 0.02mg of the strain H37Rv. These animals were divided in four groups, and treated as follows.
Group I; Five guinea pigs treated with streptomycin alone, 0.2mg once daily intramuscularly.
Group II; Fifteen guinea pigs treated with antigène méthylique alone, 0.25cc, subcutaneously twice weekly.
Group III; Twenty guinea pigs treated with both streptomycin and antigène méthylique with similar methods in group I and group II respectively.
Group IV; Five guinea pigs untreated as controls.
The treatment started from 8 days to four weeks after infection, and was continued for two months.
On each animal in group II, particularly those treated with antigène méthylique (mixing), the body weight at the end of the treatment increased significantly.
All the experimental animals were autopsied after the treatment and their tissues were studied grossly, bacteriologically, and histologically for evidence of tuberculous infection.
The guinea pigs treated with streptomycin and antigène méthylique developed significantly less tuberculosis than those treated with streptomycin or antigène méthylique alone.

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In 1948 Middlebrook and Dubos demonstrated that sheep's red blood cells, when sensitized with extracts of tubercle bacilli or tuberculin, are rendered specifically agglutinable by the sera of tuberculous patients and of immunized animals. A new method of test, based on Middlebrook's technique of onhibition of the hemagglutination reaction, which might serve as a guide in diagnosing the degree of activity of tuberculous disease, was developed in 1951 by Okada et al., and was called OMK reaction test. It consists in the determination of tuberculin in the urine of tuberculous patients.
The present paper is concerned with the determination of tuberculin in the urine of rabbits in OMK reaction. Rabbits were given intravenous amounts of OT., in doses of 10ml., 5ml., and 2ml., and their urine was investigated for tuberculin at intervals of 3 hours in the first 24 hours and at the end of another 23 hours following injections.
The results of experiments show that, in the rabbits which had received either 10ml. or 5ml. of OT, tuberculin was demonstrated to be present in the urine 3 and 6 hours after injections, but it was not detected thereafter, and that, in the rabbits which had been given 2ml. of OT., no tuberculin was demonstrated to be present in the urine at any time during the period of observations. These results would seem to indicate that it will be difficult to demonstrate tuberculin in the urine of tuberculous patients unless there are very large amounts of tuberculin circulating in vivo.

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This paper describes a case of inherent atresia ani et recti occuring in a new born child. As an emergency surgical treatment, an operation of artificial abdominal anus was performed, which temporarily resulted in a general improvement.
However, decay of intestinal contents, caused by Megalosigmoidocolon, resulted in death by debilitation.
The autopsy indicated high degree of deformation of the abdominal organs. Furthermore, discussion was conducted on atresia ani et recti.

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