Adenoidal-Pharyngeal-Conjunctival Agents

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Abstract
The undifferentiated respiratory diseases, the febrile catarrhs (acute respiratory disease, exudative nonstreptococcal pharyngitis, primary atypical pneumonias)1 , 2 and the afebrile common colds continue as unsolved omnipresent sources of human distress. About two years ago our group at the National Microbiological Institute and a group at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene embarked on collaborative efforts to study these ailments. The general, quite elastic plan was to observe them in a concerted manner — to study them simultaneously from clinical, epidemiologic and laboratory standpoints. A particularly important and specific part of the plan, however, was to utilize tissue-culture technics providing multi-purpose new . . .