“Recognizing the relation of clinical conditions to these various phenomena, Dr. Witte reached the conclusion that the correction of many aberrant or diseased conditions depended on restoring the blood to as near to its normal state as possible. He accordingly applied himself especially to investigation of the chemistry of the blood, with the object of evolving a substance in liquid form that would so closely approximate normal blood in its essential chemical characteristics that when introduced into the circulation it would bring the blood nearer to the condition in which it exists in health.” After the usual “many years of hard painstaking labor,” Dr. Witte elaborated a “fluid meeting the foregoing conditions” and now the Hemo-Therapin Laboratories inform us that 5 to 10 c.c. of this synthetic blood administered once in one, two or three days in “acute affection” and at longer intervals in “chronic ills”--once a week is said to be usually sufficient--will restore blood to a normality and empower it to overcome most ills. While disclaiming that “Hemo-Therapin is an infallible panacea,” the medical profession is asked to believe that: “In erysipelas, septicemia, pyemia, the acute fevers, puerperal infection, furunculosis, carbuncles, malaria, acute rheumatism, pneumonia, typhoid fever, and in various skin diseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, herpes zoster, etc., the results have been prompt and gratifying.” It is “no less effective” in such “chronic ailments” as: “... diabetes, chronic Bright’s disease, goiter, pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic rheumatism, the severe anemias, arterio-sclerosis [_sic_], various nervous disorders, locomotor ataxia, varicose and indolent ulcers....” Evidence of the virtues of Hemo-Therapin is submitted as a series of “case reports”--unsigned--which bear a striking likeness to the testimonials of “patent medicine” almanacs. A specimen of the “case reports” is the following: