The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 38, 573-589,
Copyright, 1923, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
THE QUESTION OF SENSITIZATION OF JOINTS WITH NON-HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCI
Homer F. Swift M.D.1 and
Ralph H. Boots M.D.1
1 From the Hospital of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
It was impossible to demonstrate a condition of specific joint sensitization to non-hemolytic streptococci by first injecting the joints of rabbits with small doses of killed non-hemolytic streptococci, or with extracts of these organisms, and subsequently inoculating the rabbits intravenously with homologous living bacteria. Joints so treated were no more liable to involvement than were other untreated joints of the same animals.
Submitted on April 5, 1923