A GLOSSARY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS

w-hen Dodd statesthat for more than ten years he has not openeda boil or a' carbunclesurgically, the method must be looked on as successful. The rest and the splinting are possibly the most important points in the treatment, and it is perhapsuseful to point out that absolute rest by the application of plaster to war wounds is attended by successhitherto not obtained. Rest will overcome the patient'sexhaustion,and the other measuresfor increasing his resistanceare sound. The use of blood transfusion to relieve the attendantanremia is of interest, and also important in view of the part that the added blood may take in the acquisition by the patient of immunity to the causativeorganism. Dodd's article should be studied with ca re by all who may have to treat patients with boils.