My first point is that with his association we are back again on the theme of contamination. The girl has an infection, be it tubercular, syphilitic, or obscure. He himself noted spontaneously that he hadnot mentioned, although in the actual case it had been canvassed, the possibility of diabetes. We were thus rehearsing a topic which had already been well tested, as it were orally, in the past 2½ yearsof analysis, but which was now to be re-investigated by other means