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To the Editor: —In looking over medical literature for the past ten years, I can find no records of any trouble with the traffic officer which may be due directly to his occupation. Within the last year a few cases came under my observation, and I will only refer to them here preliminary to a more complete report in the future. It would be interesting to know if men in other cities have observed symptoms similar to those I mention here. This being an age of prevention rather than cure, I believe we may possibly do something for the poor traffic officer who stands on a dusty, busy corner all day long blowing an "ear-splitting," mouth-irritating, and if I may use a harsher term, "saliva-slobbering" whistle. The symptoms reported here usually disappear after the first six months of the officer's duty, with the exception of the chronic bronchitis and tendency

History.— E. H., a young man, aged about 23, presented himself for treatment with a typical chancre on his lower lip. He gave a history of having a "cold sore" on his lip, and had become inoculated about a month or so before, by kissing. The disease is directly traceable to a woman who had syphilitic mucous patches on the inside of her lips. Dr. L. F. Jermain saw the patient also, and we made the diagnosis principally from the secondaries and the history of the case, examination for spirochetes not being deemed necessary. Examination.— The cervical and sublingual glands were swollen and nodular, and small papular eruptions were beginning to appear on the patient's face. He had received no treatment before he consulted me, which was on Oct. 24, October 24 shows.