In theJournalof Feb. 15, 1896, page 345, quoting from<i>Sem. Méd.</i>, Jan. 15, 1896, I find that, "An Italian, Dr. Dazio, suggested the above-named treatment, and with it, Dr. Consalvi, of Casoli, has recently treated successfully nine cases." I desire to say that I inaugurated a similar treatment at Dyersburg, Tenn., in the spring of 1885. Having seen as consulting physician, a Mr. McC., of Fowlk's Station, four miles from Dyersburg, in the midst of vigorous manhood, die in great agony with cerebro-spinal meningitis, and two days later a youth of 14 years named Martin, in the town of Dyersburg, sicken and in twenty-four hours die as quietly as one going to sleep; and having practiced through two former epidemics of the disease with little or no success, I determined on an original heroic course of my own in the event of an epidemic. I had not long