Allergic nature of rheumatic polyarthritis

Abstract

The processes of hypersensitivity in tissues, hyperergic reactions, have attracted special attention since Pirke's discovery of the tuberculin test. Very soon it became obvious that the processes of hypersensitivity play a significant role in the pathogenesis of many diseases of a very different nature, often determining these or those features and phases of the course of the disease process. Now elements of hyperergic state of tissues are noted in pathology of such diverse diseases as tuberculosis, syphilis, trichophytosis, bronchial asthma, eczema, hay fever, urticaria and some others.

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