NONSPECIFIC THERAPY IN ARTHRITIS AND INFECTIONS
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- 1 January 1919
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1908)
- Vol. 23 (1) , 69-131
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1919.00090180074006
Abstract
Many of the clinical effects of the intravenous injection of foreign protein have been known for some time, particularly since the introduction of intravenous dosage of diphtheria antitoxin in diphtheria.1It has been observed that, following a previous almost afebrile or slightly febrile period in the course of disease, a more or less pyrogenic reaction followed the intravenous injection of antitoxin. For example, of twenty-six recent cases from my records in the contagious hospital, treated by intravenous injection of antitoxin, twenty-one reacted with chill and rise of temperature. In some cases the rise in temperature was as high as 108 F. The explanation of this reaction was not generally known until the researches of Vaughan and his co-workers were made (1909). Prior to this time, Buchner (1890), Krehl and Matthes (1895) had induced fever in animals by the subcutaneous injection of bacterial and other proteins. No importance was attached toThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: