Since that date she has been under strict vegetarian diet and medication, including thyroid from time to time, with repeated application of X-rays, and under all these measures together many of the nodules have disappeared; although some new ones have formed, several of which have been removed under local anæsthesia, the wounds healing kindly. As she resides some distance from the city she has not been seen since October 7th, 1914, she wishing to take the X-rays nearer home, but she was earnestly charged to continue also the dietetic and other treatment. In this instance the patient has lived comfortably and without pain for almost sixteen months after coming under treatment, and, although she has lost some flesh, the active cancerous process, which would otherwise have carried her off long ago, has been in a measure checked. What will be the further history of the case one cannot tell, for it is quite possible that being away from my care she may neglect dietetic and medicinal treatment, trusting only to the X-rays, which, of course, cannot influence the real nature and course of the disease. Reference was made to certain cases of recurrent cancer in the Hospital which had been under active medical treatment during the past year, with careful laboratory studies, but it is naturally too early to report anything very definite in regard to them, especially as most of them were desperate cases, which had advanced far beyond any possible operative relief. Moreover several of them remained but a short time under treatment, as it is very difficult to convince this class of patients that any possible benefit can accrue from anything but an operation, and this being impossible they often give up and leave, preferring to die at home; moreover the dietary restraint seems also very irksome and useless to them and their friends. In one particular patient, however, there was such a remarkable improvement that it is worth reporting to you. Mrs. C. M. was first seen February 12th, 1914. Nineteen years previously she had an abscess of the right breast, which healed and left a tumor the size of a pigeon’s egg in the inner, upper quadrant of the breast; this remained quiescent until it began to enlarge, eleven months before it was removed at the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, November 14th, 1912. The tumor was then about the size of a hen’s egg, with an area of skin the size of a quarter, attached to it: a second tumor was felt just below the nipple, which was not retracted, and the axillary glands were involved: there were no signs of metastases in the abdomen. A complete operation was then performed, with dissection of the glands in the axillary and supra-clavicular regions, and she was discharged January 16th, 1913.