Case 1.
—About Dec. 20, 1897, Mrs. N., of Ypsilanti, a widow, aged 50 years, mother of three children, concluded that with her son's help she would do a small washing. The contents of the tub were passed through an ordinary clothes wringer which the lady operated with her right hand. The labor thus performed was trivial. At 4 p.m., of the above date the patient began to suffer pain in the tip of her right ring finger, becoming more marked as time went on. At 6 p.m., she had a severe chill, at 7 p.m., her temperature was 105, pulse 130; and she was suffering violent pain in the finger and was slightly delirious. Her medical attendant succeeded only in part in allaying these symptoms, despite a somewhat heroic medication. On December 21, patient's temperature did not go above 105; pulse 120; extreme pain in the finger. The finger