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<jats:p> 1. The clinical findings and results in seventeen patients under two years of age, suffering from acute osteomyelitis, have been studied and compared with forty-eight similar cases treated without penicillin. </jats:p><jats:p> 2. The results in the penicillin-treated group were not greatly superior to those in the control group and did not justify the high hopes that have been entertained for penicillin as a certain cure for osteomyelitis. </jats:p>