the left foot and slight weeping between the first and nied and third
and fourth toes of the right foot. These cases were no more severe than
to be classed as the one plus type, and the balance negative, It might
be said here that where there has been an original deep fissuring and
severe weeping with incrustation the normal process of healing results
in exfoliation and sluffing of the old necrotic epidermis, causing the
normal restoration of the contour of the web with new epidermis, This
cycle of healing was brought about more rapidly by the daily foot bath
than by the use of the machine only, but the end results were the same,
No patient was diagnosed positive that showed the normal exfoliation
between the toes or that had marked redness due to uncleanliness. Past
' history has shown me that many cases diagnosed as epidermophytosis was
chiefly due to the above reasons, Any case that was doubtful, slant
cultures were taken from the fissures or blebs.

General Inspection

 

Separate of the first selected controlled group of sixty-seven and of
the twenty-five semi-controlled cases, a record was kept on two hundred
and thirty-nine of the remaining total of four hundred and fourteen men
examined throughout the entire period,

Due to the fact that time did not permit enednton all of the men until
as late as the third week, it was noticeable that more men presented
minor and negative cases than during the first and second weeks. An ex-
planation for this decrease in severity and more negative cases is that
while these men remained unexamined they had used the Peda-Spray regu~

larly. During this daily course of contact with the solution they were