Every physician of experience knows that herpes zoster, with its pain and lesions, lasts several weeks. I report four cases of herpes zoster in which antireticular cytotoxic serum Bogomolets was used, with disappearance of the vesicular eruption in two weeks or less.
REPORT OF CASES
Case 1.—H. F., a man of 60 years, was awakened by severe pain across the right scapula and arm. Two days later, on Nov. 20, 1950, he presented himself for treatment and was given injections of antireticular cytoxic serum and anodynes for local and systemic use, and although photographs showed extension of the area of the lesions nine days later the lesions had regressed so much that he had no pain and did not require further treatment. He received four injections of antireticular cytotoxic serum.
Case 2.—L. H., a woman of 60, had moderate pain in the flank on Jan. 24, 1952. The next