1) To determine the effect of gargling with D. H. A.-salt as well as with other gargles, the writer examined the changes in the count of acidogenic bacilli both in the disgorged fluids obtained from gargling, and in the mouth after continuously repeated gargling, with each of those solutions.
2) As for the count of acidogenic bacilli in 40 c. c. of each disgorged fluid, the number of bacilli was less in the cases of D. H. A.-salt solution than in those of physiological salt solution or of boric acid water, so that D. H. A.-salt seems effective tosome extent.
3) The cases of D. H. A.-salt solution showed lower value than those of boric water concerning the number of bacilli in the disgorged fluids obtained from the first gargling, after which, however, the former cases attained the highest one.
4) As regards penicillin and aureomycin, the bacilli were scarcely demonstrable in the disgorged fluids obtained from the first gargling, nearly all the cases, however, showed the development of bacilli in the disgorged fluide obtained from the gargling with physiological salt solution only 5 minutes after the last gargling.
5) The increase of bacilli number after continuously repeated gargling is not al ways proportional to the course of time, showing considerable differences in fluctuation.
6) The gargling with D. H. A.-salt solution seems unpromissing to be expeeted much of its effectiveness, and penicillin seems to show a good result.
7 The effect will be due not much to the chemical work of the gargles themselves, but a great deal to their mechanical one.
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