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Summary. When surveying how sanocrysin treatment stands after the years that have passed, the result may be summarized as follows: 1 ) The evaluation of the therapeutic results stated in the first publication has fully stood its trial. In this treatment we for the first time possessed a true chemotherapy against tuberculosis. 2 ) The clinical pictures described in the first publication have continually been reproduced; they depend on the dosage and on anatomical substrata. 3 ) The appearance of the reactions was from the first explained on basis of a toxaemia, supposed to be due to the morbid processes and not to the drug; the arguments put forth at that time were the same as those stated above. This standpoint has further been veri­ fied through a long series of works. 4 ) The doses according with experimental evidence have turned out to be the only serviceable ones, and only this form of dosage is entitled to the name of sariocrysm-treatment. 5 ) The indications for treatment have been widened, so that now they do not only include the different forms of medical tuberculo­ sis, but also some groups of rheumatic disease of the joints.