ERYSIPELAS

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Abstract
The frequency of recurrent attacks of erysipelas, combined with the difference in intensity and duration between the primary attack and the relapses supervening at short intervals, are factors which recently have suggested the existence of a state of bacterial allergy to account for the transitory duration of active immunity in erysipelas. The significance of bacterial allergy in scarlet fever has recently been seriously considered by many investigators who fail to account for the occurrence of the scarlet fever rash and symptoms on any other basis than that of bacterial allergy. Allergic sensitization early in life to the products ofStreptococcus scarlatinaeis a view greatly strengthened by the convincing experimental data presented by Dochez and Sherman,1Zinsser and Grinnell,2Zinsser,3Bristol,4Mackie and McLachlan,5Smith,6and others who succeeded in inducing sensitization of guinea-pigs and rabbits with whole bacteria or their toxic products. Recently,

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