Acute Pericarditis after Smallpox Vaccination

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Abstract
THE serous surfaces of the body are peculiarly sensitive to a variety of noxious agents so that their involvement is a common, and often the predominant, clinical feature of some other underlying pathologic process. The pericardium shares this characteristic, and it is therefore not surprising to find acute pericarditis in such diseases as rheumatic fever, bacterial infections and uremia. In a review of 96 cases of acute pericarditis Reeves1 reported rheumatic fever in 40.67 per cent, bacterial infections in 19.8 per cent, uremia in 11.5 per cent, benign nonspecific pericarditis of unknown etiology in 10.4 per cent, tuberculosis in 7.3 . . .

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