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radiograph taken in September showed that the hilar glands were subsiding, and she has remained well clinically. Oxyphenbutazone has been shown to favourably influence the pulmonary lesions of sarcoidosis,l but there is no report of subsidence of erythema nodosum in association with this condition, though three cases of erythema nodosum (one associated with pulmonary tuberculosis, two "idiopathic ") have been treated successfully with the drug.2 It would seem that oxyphenbutazone and phenylbutazone can be of considerable value in the control of pain in erythema nodosum. -I am, etc., DOUGLAS GOLDING. Department of Physical Medicine and Rheumatology, Princess Alexandra Hospital and Harlow Group, Herts and Essex.