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In the first phase of inhalation due to the sedimentation of droplets against the walls of the atomizer arises a high loss of fluid in the apparatus. When the air flow was regular a high scattering volume of the consumed fluid quantity from the remedy store container was obtained. In the short-time inhalation this method cannot be used for the estimation of the quantity of medicaments applied to the patient. An exact dosage is possible only by measuring the fog flow and when the exact density of fog is known. When the presuppositions mentioned are not given, the informations about the virtual density of fog which was calculated by means of the analysis of regression, may be obtained.

Concerning the total defense of the body the function of granulocytes in the determining parts of phagocytosis (motility, chemotaxis, opsonation, ingestion, microbicidia) are described and the congenital and acquired distrubances of phagocytosis are treated as short survey as well as partly explained by clinical examples. Out of the manifold possibilities of examinations of the function of granulocytes the NBT-test is described as an estimation of the function of granulocytes usable in clinical routine wotk and its application is recommended.

A survey is given on the present state of the standard therapy of chronic myeloleucosis as well as on some newer tendencies of treatment. Since in the therapy of the chronic phase of the disease and also of the blast crisis despite application of combinations of cytostatics no decisive success is to be recorded, some newer techniques--the splenectomy as well as the various kinds of the transplantation of bone marrow (autologous, syngenic, allogenic)--and their chances for success are briefly discussed.