Three groups of guinea pigs infected with 0. 1mg of human tubercle bacilli H37Rv were treated with INAH 5mg, 50mg and SM 10mg per day respectively, and sacrificed after the treatment of one or two weeks. Effect of INAH on the tuberculous lesions of lymph nodes, liver, spleen and lung was observed by the gross and histological examinations, and compared with SM treated group.
Infiltration of leucocytes in the tuberculous lesions was markedly increased in INAH treated groups, but mass of fibrin in the lesions was decreased in the treated groups. Increase in leucocytes in the lesion was thought to base on the inflammatory reaction of tuberculous lesions caused by INAH, and it shows that INAH was concerned with the softening of tuberculoma.

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The change of staphylococci between the carriers in and outside the hospital was pursued by phage typing. There was no remarkable chang in the phage-pattern of coagulase-positive staphylococci obtained from the nose and throat of students for two classes of a nursing school, through 6 months including both the time before their entering the school and the time of their dormitory lives. In this 6 months period, group III and II each represented about 30%, and group I was not detected. However, in 2 and a half months on duty in the wards of the hospital, group I strains appeared with type 80, while group II decreased, and disappeared after fourteen months. The phage-pattern in the student nurses after entry on ward duties were quite similar to those in physicians and nurses in service in the hospital.
Group I strains have the highest resistance to antibiotics, but are the weakest to heating and disinfectants, whereas group II have the lowest resistance to antibiotics although stronger to heating and disinfectants. Group III, which contains many antibiotic-resistant strains, are also resistant to heating and disinfectants.
Therefore it can be considered that the distribution of staphylococci among their carriers is influenced by the selective action of the environment, and in the hospital predominantly influenced by antibiotic action.

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The author wanted to see what effect the minute electric current generated in the living body would exert on the growth of fibroblasts and bone. For this purpose, the femur and fibroblasts of the heart from the chick embryo were cultured. A modification of the Carrel's bottle was used for the convenience of applying electric current.
The growth of 3rd serial culture of the fibroblasts was inhibited by a current of 7.5, 5.0 and 2.1 μA in varying degrees according to the current strength, accelerated by 1.2 μA, and slightly inhibited by 0.1 μA.
In passing a 5.0 μA current, the growth was accelerated toward the anode, exhibiting remarkable “polarity”. On the cathodic side, however, only a trace of “polarity” was recognized. In the case of 2.1 μA, remarkable polarity was observed toward both poles. Especially toward the anodic side, the end of the tissue was pointed owing to stronger polarity, the tissue consequently assuming an oval form.
The growth of the femur was remarkably inhibited by the application of 7.5 μA current, and slightly inhibited by 5.0, 2.1, 1.2, and 0.1 μA, without showing change according to current strength.

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1) Curvature of the spinal column was observed in 102 adult males and females in the standing, dorsal and ventral position.
2) Spinal column curvature in the dorsal position was delineated by an apparatus devised by the author, and that in the standing and ventral position by Mori-Kamizuma' s apparatus.
3) The apex of backward curvature of the thoracic spine was found, in both sexes, slightly showed toward the caudal in the dorsal position as compared with that in the standing position, and this was especially remarkable in adolescents of the female. In the ventral position, it was further showed in the caudal direction in the male, while in the female it was remarkably showed in the cephalic direction as compared with that in the standing position.
The apex of the forward curvature of the lumbar spine in the dorsal position was showed toward the caudal in the male, and toward the cephalic in the female as compared with that in the standing position, In the ventral position, it was slightly showed toward the caudal in the male, rather remarkably in the old, while in the female it was remarkably showed toward the cephalic.
In both sexes, there was scarcely any change due to the position in the backward and forward curving part in the standing and dorsal position, In the ventral position it was showed toward the cephalic slightly in the male, and remarkably in the female, it was found in several spines in thelatter.
The distance of the apex of the backward curvature from the basal line was smaller in the dorsal and ventral position than in the standing position in both sexes. Namely, the curvature was decreased in the lying position. However, the distance of the apex of the forward curvature from the basal line was conversely increased in the ventral position in both sexes, especially remarkably in the female, though it was decreased in the dorsal position.
4) In the type of the position, males belong to B type mostly, next D, E types, while females belong to E type mostly, next C type, in the standing position. In the dorsal position males belong to B, E types and females belong to E type mostly. And in the ventral position many males and females belong to B type.

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Roentgenologically and clinically, I surveyed the changes of bone structure of the hip joint, the knee joint, the leg and the spinal column offecting the walkol in cerebral palsied children. And through this survey, I confirmed the incomplete formation of acetabulum, the deformation the of femoral head and its abnormal place, the increase of anterrsion and antetorsion in the thigh bone, the knock-knee, the abnormal torsion outward and inward of lower thigh and abnormality of curvature in the spinal column. And I furrhe investigated the factors that brought afout these deformations.
The result of tlsc research was that these deformations of bones were affected by the factors not of the spasm athetosis or looseness of muscles which act upon bones directly, but of the loading, gait and walking ability.

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