In May of 1946 abdominal typhoid injection was given to the pupils of a public school in Hyogo-Prefecture. The. inoculated tuberculosis of human type was present on the injected areas of 102 children.
One of the three persons who gave injections had open tuberculosis and the other two were healthy. Diseased pupils received injection from either one of the three.
All of the tuberculine tests showed positive reactions: —No negative innerter was found among them by the time two years and a half later.
Every 3 to 4 months X-ray photographs were taken and 20 cases with tuberculout change in the lung were discovered.
Small shadows in the lung faded away within a short period of time. Remarkable subjective ymptoms were observed in one case with haematogenic disseminating tuberculosis, and in 'two ca-; es with markcd exudative pleurisy. There were also bone-joint tuberculosis in three ca. ss, and muscle tuberculosis in one case.
Five of the grotip were proved to be tuberculous by expectoration culture.
Except One or two cases, all of them are-studying in the school now, and no death evidently caused from tuberculosis was discovered to date.

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When egg-media which is plugged with cotton usual is stored at room temperature or in the refrig, the chance of the entrance of saprophytes through plug is increased as the time of storage becomes longer. This tendoucy is greater particularly, in the refrigerator althrmgh the petency of media is not decreased inspite of the leAgth of time.

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In the previous report, it was reported that the Mendel- Bechterew and RossoHim reflexes were observed in high percentages on the lower extrimities of 437 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis.
In this second report, the relationship between those pathological reflexes and the side, degree and kinds of lesions, studied with the Fame patients, is stated.
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At the end of culture the culture media are sealed in order to prevent from drying. Formerly paraffin was used for the sealing but either paraffin or cotton is not abundant in the present Japan We studied on the sterile rubber cap sealing instead of paraffin which serves better for the above purpose, giving the identical result and being more convenient for washing.

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Though it has been well known since the oId times that season and weather condition give rise to diseases or make them worse, it has been only in most recent times, when front and air mass received attention, that research in this field brought recognizable results. There have been voluminous reports on tuberculosis in this respect, but most of the discussions have been merely based on intuition. The author studied the influence of weather chiefly on subjective symptom, and on a few objective symptoms in tuberculous patients, by means of the so-called spatial N-method devised by M. Masuyama as a statistic method in biocliinatology.

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