Abstract
The following experience is being reported because, as far as I am aware, a similar case has not been recorded and because it deals with a therapeutic substance which is frequently used at present. A school teacher aged 45 had been suffering with a mild form of Raynaud's disease since 1932 and with a progressive hypertrophic arthritis of the lumbar spine and sacro-iliac regions since 1933. In April 1940 she had a severe attack of right-sided sciatica for which, among other measures, injections of thiamine hydrochloride were started. A total of thirty-six intramuscular injections of 25 mg. was given between April 16 and July 10, with two different commercial preparations. She vomited twenty minutes and one hour after her eighteenth injection on May 21, 1940. No more thiamine hydrochloride was given until August 6, at which time the first preparation used was resumed. By August 16 she had received six
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