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ANALYSIS OF SEVEN CASES

DAVID SEEGAL, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1935;56(5):912-919.

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Twenty years ago Volhard and Fahr¹ stated that the streptococcus played the most important rôle in the various types of nephritis and that the pneumococcus was the next most important infectious agent. Rake² recently reviewed the literature concerning the importance of the pneumococcus in the etiology of nephritis and called attention to the fact that whereas the streptococcus has recently received the chief attention, numerous papers appearing in the last decade of the nineteenth century dealt with the significance of pneumococcic infection as an inciting agent in acute nephritis. The recent comprehensive clinical and experimental studies of Blackman and his associates³ produced renewed interest in the problem. These authors noted pathologic evidence of acute nephritis in 9.4 per cent of 95 young children who died of the various types of pneumococcic infection. "Outspoken examples of acute nephritis were found only in infants with pneumococcal infections, usually of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and the Presbyterian Hospital.

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