A post-mortem examination was made on Monday, February 20th, when a considerable growth was found in the mediastinum (probably primary), pressing upon the right bronchus, and smaller growths sparsely distributed in the pleura, lungs, retroperitoneal glands, etc. Footnote 7: _British Journal of Dermatology_, 1903, p. 210. CURRENT LITERATURE. ON THE QUESTION OF BLASTOMYCOSIS OF THE SKIN AND ITS RELATION TO “FOLLICULITIS EXULCERANS SERPIGINOSA NASI” (KAPOSI.) BRANDWEINER. (_Archiv f. Derm. u. Syph._, August, 1904, p. 49. One plate.) This paper is based on a case which occurred in Dr. Matzenauer’s clinique in Vienna. The patient was a shoemaker, aged 37 years, who suffered from a papillated crusted lesion on the lower part of the left side of the nose. The diseased patch occupied the ala nasi, and extended up as far as the bridge, where it faded into the surrounding skin. It was reddish-brown in colour, raised and irregular in shape, and covered with yellowish inspissated pus. It had been noticed first about a year before. On histological examination the stratum corneum was found to contain numerous unicellular organisms of from 4 to 10 µ in diameter, which stained with polychrome methylene blue, were doubly contoured and were believed to be blastomycetes. The epithelium had proliferated and presented small necrotic pustules containing these organisms. There was a round-celled infiltration in the corium in which the blastomyces was also detected. An attempt to cultivate the organisms and to inoculate them in lower animals was unsuccessful. On the ground of this not quite convincing case the writer took the opportunity of reviewing the literature on the subject. He referred in detail to several cases described by Kaposi with the title of “Folliculitis exulcerans serpiginosa nasi,” which he regarded as most probably identical with “blastomycosis.” J. M. H. M. A NOTE ON THE TREATMENT OF SYPHILIS. JONATHAN HUTCHINSON. (_The Practit._, August, 1904, p. 145.)