Research on Rheumatic Affections

Abstract

THE six main monographs collected in this volume deal with the role of the streptococci in rheumatic fever, in chorea, in erythema nodosum, in carditis, in acute suppurative arthritis, and in chronic arthritis. These monographs give a more or less complete résumé of all the researches of value which have been carried out as to the relationship of the streptococci in the diseases under discussion, but they are not mere records of the experimental results. They contain a great deal of valuable literature on both the clinical and public health aspects—the blood changes in rheumatic fever, the association of tonsillitis with it, its prevalence and danger, its epidemiology and infectivity, etc. The clinical aspects of carditis and the various forms of chronic arthritis are discussed. The treatment of the various conditions by vaccines and sera, and the histological characters of the pathological lesions are carefully reviewed. In fact, the diseases dealt with are treated in an all-round fashion which ilf would be impossible to find in any other single publication.

Annals of the Pickett-Thomson Research Laboratory.

Vol. 4: The Pathogenic Streptococci; an Historical Survey of their Rôle in Human and Animal Disease. Part 1: Pp. vii + 250 + 7 plates. Part 2: Pp. viii + 251–494 + plates 8–18. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox; Baltimore, Md.: The Williams and Wilkins Co., 1928–1929.) 42s. net each Part.