THE IMMUNOLOGY OF RHEUMATISM. By Jerzy B. Kwapinski and Marshall L. Synder. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. xii, 255 pp. $9.00. The immunology of rheumatism is a large field which is rapidly evolving. Any monograph on the subject will almost surely seem somewhat antiquated by the time it appears in print, and this monograph is no exception. Most of the references date from 1958 or earl...

In the British Medical Journal of Aug. 14, 1943 (p. 203), Prof. Bogomoletz published an article in which he claimed that he had produced a serum the use of which caused considerable amelioration both of symptoms and of pathological tissue changes in " rheumatism." The Empire Rheumatism Council invited Prof. Bogomoletz to send some of this serum to this country in order that it might be tested u...

Hunter has not overlooked the articular rheumatism ... But to Swediaur is due the credit of recognizing the connection between the cause and the effect, between gonorrhoea and the variety of articular rheumatism which we are about to consider; it is to this author, in a word, that we are indebted for establishing the existence of gonorrhoeal arthritis . . .[This is an error; see Musgrave',3J Al...

In the winter of 1959-1960 the number of patients with acute rheumatism who applied to our Centre for treatment was larger than in former years, and most cases presented with a forme fruste of the condition. The three cases reported differed from the others in that they presented with erythema annulare (EA). The chief outward sign of erythema annulare is a series of rings about 2 mm. wide, with...