Abstract
This case is interesting because of (1) the long period after injury before infection declared itself; (2) the prompt reduction of fever on cleansing of the wound, and (3) the marked effect of gentian violet on a secondary staphylococcic infection. REPORT OF CASE G. S., a well developed, well nourished woman, aged 17, was admitted to the Colorado General Hospital, Feb. 14, 1927. Three weeks previously she had injured her left leg above the knee in a coasting accident, the toboggan having run into a post. Her clothing was badly torn and the skin of her leg above the knee was deeply lacerated but the muscles were not torn. The leg was very painful and by the time she got to a physician it was swollen from hip to knee and was black and blue. The physician said she had broken a blood vessel. There were sharp pains in the
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