RT Journal
T1 CUrrent comment
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD June 10
VO 112
IS 23
SP 2424
OP 2424
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800230048019
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800230048019
AB STUDIES ON RHEUMATIC FEVER 
    Recent studies on rheumatic fever by Schultz and Rose1 have yielded facts with suggestive diagnostic implications. Determination of the glutathione content of erythrocytes and of the catalytic potency of the blood in rheumatic fever as well as an investigation of the dextrose tolerance curves of persons with this disease did not yield particularly striking results. An investigation of the novel formol-gel reaction of Gate and Papacostas2 in a number of febrile diseases with particular reference to rheumatic fever, however, led to interesting observations. In patients with various febrile diseases it was found that, in general, a parallel was demonstrable between the erythrocyte sedimentation rate and the results of the formol-gel reaction, the incidence of positive gel reactions varying directly with acceleration of the sedimentation rate. In patients with rheumatic carditis, however, negative formol-gel reactions were often observed early in the disease, although at the