BASIC FUCHSIN IN SURGERY: ITS WIDE RANGE OF USEFULNLSS

In the work of treating the employees of a rapidtransit system employing almost 15,000 men, perhaps the commonest chronic condition we have to deal with, and also one of the most unsatisfactory, is ulcer of the leg. It is so common among surface-car motormen that it has come to be known as "motorman's leg." In considering the etiology of this condition, after excluding constitutional conditions and trauma, one is struck by the fact that motormen are very prone to it, while the conductors are comparatively free. Of course the explanation is simple. The average motorman is obliged to stand in one spot for hours at a time, and the only rest he obtains is by transferring his weight from one foot to the other from time to time. Thus he does not have the stimulation to venous return of circulation in the leg caused by muscular action — which is