In this contribution the writer describes an unusual case which occurred in Professor Janovsky’s clinic at Prague. The patient was a coal-miner, aged 18 years. At the age of 14 he began work in a mine and soon afterwards he suffered from a severe attack of furunculosis, which persisted for a year. As it got steadily worse he had to leave his work for a time. When he was able to work again he got employment in another mine. After some time he went to the original mine and the furunculosis returned rapidly and he was again compelled to leave work. He blamed bad drinking-water as the cause of it. Several other miners in the same pit were similarly affected and among them was the patient’s father. Soon after leaving work for the second time the pustular lesions began to be replaced by raised papillomatous masses which were especially well-marked about the face and neck. The eyelids, forehead, tip of the nose, nasal orifice, lips, chin, and left side of the cheek became covered with crusted papillomatous lesions. A few similar lesions developed on the body in the inguinal regions, and both the cervical and inguinal glands were enlarged. A microscopical examination of one of the lesions showed a proliferation of the interpapillary processes, and a dense cellular infiltration in the papillary and sub-papillary layers, consisting chiefly of leucocytes and mast-cells and dilatation of the capillaries. The lesions did not react well to local treatment, but eventually with tonics and by persevering with local remedies a cure resulted. There was no history or evidence of syphilis. The disease was similar in many respects to tropical frambœsia or yaws, and corresponded closely to a case which Lewin described as sporadic frambœsia. J. M. H. M. ON THE RADIO-THERAPEUTICS OF RINGWORM. SABOURAUD. (_Ann. de Derm. et de Syph._, July, 1904, p. 577.)