The author conducted Thorn's Tests on 20 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis which had the clinical symptoms of adrenal insufficiency. The tests were epinephrin-test and ACTH-test. ACTH Test was conducted both intramuscularly and intravenously and the intravenous one was made for 8 hours.
Results; Significant decrease of eosinophile leucocytes was seen in all of the 20 cases in the intravenous performance of ACTH Tests. However, negative results were obtained in 50% of the cases by the intramuscular ACTH tests and in 65% of the ases by the epinephrintests. The author thinks that the method of intravenous ACTH test is superior to the other two methods in the diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency, although the former has remarkable side-reactions (6 to 20 in our study). The author does not neglect the value of the epinephrin-test, however, in case of pulmonary tuberculosis, (with the exception of adrenal tuberculosis), it may be supposed that the pituitary insufficiency is primal to the pituitary adrenal insufficiency.

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54 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis which had been given unilateral artificial pneumothorax for more than 3 months without other surgical therapies were presented for our observations at more than 6 months after the termination of the artificial pneumothorax.
Results:
1) Relationship between the incidence and the degree of pulmonary contraction No contraction in 20.4%; slight contraction (5 to 20%) in 18.5%; moderate contraction (25 to 60%) in 51.9%; marked contraction (more than 65%) in 9.2%.
2) Relationships between the duration of the pneumothorax therapy and the degree of pulmonary contraction: Cases which had less than 12 months of pneumothorax gave none or slight one, while the cases which had more than 12 months of pneumothorax had remarkable one.
3) Relationship between the extent of the disease (graded by the classification of the National Tuberculosis Association) and the degree of contraction: Minimal showed none or slight one, moderately and advanced showed more or less remarkable one.
4) Relationship between the density of x-ray shadow and the degree of contraction: Slight shadow cases hed none or slight one, heavy shadow cases hed marked one.
5) Relationship between x-ray findings of endobronchial diseases and the degree of contraotion: 0% in non-contraction group; 50% in slight contraction; 82% in moderate contraction group; 100% in marked group.
6) Relationship between the opaque lung and the incidence and degree of contraction: 65% of opaque lung was found in unexpandable lung. partial opacification of upper lobs showed slight contraction; general opacification showed noderate contraction and massive opaque lung showed remarkable contraction. Cases of continuous opaque lobe showed marked contraction. The longer the duration of opacification, the higher the degree of contraction.
7) Relationship between the pleural effusion and the degree of contraction: Generally, the more the effusion, the higher the degree of contraction.

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The author examined the growth of bacteria in the Jixo-Hot-Spring water and the Umi-Hot-Spring water, which had no variations by the analysis table of hot spring. Our test strains were tuberculous bacilli-Aoyama-B, salmonella typhoid, E. coli, salmonella typhoid Murium, salmonella typhoid Suis, salm. paratyphoid Suis, Salm. paratyphoid-A and calm. paratyphoid-B. Our media for Myc. Tuberculosis were Kirchner Medium and the modified Kirchner Medium from which the various components were taken away for the comparative experiments, and for intestinal bacteria Kobayashi Medium was used.
Results:
1) The longer the preserving period of the tested hot spring water, the stronger the growth of Myc. Tuberculosis.
2) By means of the comparative experiments with the reduction of the various elements in the used media, it was suggested that the tested waters worked as the substitutes of 2nd phosphate of natrium, sulphate magnesium and citric acid.
3) The same results were obtained by the same experiments with artificial hot spring water.
4) No distinct differences were obtained in the examinations by upper clear part and hte lower precipitated part of hot spring waters, which had been preserved for longer period, in their effects on the growth of Myc. Tuberculosis.
5) The hot spring waters, which were preserved for longer period, had the effects towards the development of salmonella typhoid.

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The author applied radioactive colloidal CrP³²O₄ on the cases of metastatic tumors of various organs such as breasts, mouths and rectums. CrP³²O₄ were given by injection. The cases were inoperable malignant tumor cases In our experimental usage of CrP³²O₄, remarkable clinical effects were obtained. The clinical effects were also proved through the histopathological examinations. Our effective doses of the injection were 10 to 5 μe per a gram of the tissue. The method of treatment is very simple injection. The author thinks that the present method of treatment (the use of CrP³²O₄) will be more effective than the intratumoral application of Radium-needle or Radon-seeds and that the present method will have a very bright future.

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This paper deals with the case report of chronic X-ray dermatitis of bilateral lower extremities. The case was a physician who bad been practised X-ray diagnosis for about 10 years, As for the cause for that lesions, his practice of “Untertischdurchleuchtung” shall be considered. The protections against X-ray exposure in the practice of “Untertischdurchleuchtung” have been more or less neglected, because of its fewer chance of application. However, since this kind of fluoroscopy may be more frequently employed in the radiological diagnosis in the field of angiocardiography, broncbiography and cholangiography etc, we should like to enphasixe to pay more attentions on the methods of protection against X-ray exposure in “Untertischdurchleuchtung” examination.

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