Morfologiczne badania porównawcze nad rola ukladu mezenchymalnego a w szczególnošci sercowo-naczyńiowego w zapaleniu hiperergicznym i gośćcowym

This monograph deals with the author's microscopic studies of postmortem material of the Pathologic Institute of the University of Poznan (Poland). An attempt is made to bring into correlation the microscopic alterations in rheumatic fever as regards the connective tissue and the circulatory system, and the analogy between rheumatic fever and experimental hyperergic inflammation. Experiments performed by the author represent a modification of Klinge's experiments. The modification consisted in sensitizing rabbits by human rather than horse serum. Serum obtained from a case of acute rheumatic fever and from a case of asthma was injected into the knee joint of a sensitized rabbit. A striking resemblance was noted in the histopathologic alterations in experimental hyperergic inflammation and in those of the rheumatic fever. The distribution of the lesions throughout the mesenchymal system was much the same in both conditions. The author concludes that the lesions in the mesenchymal system seen in