A Review of Recent Italian Work on Rheumatism : II.-Chronic Rheumatism.

RHEUMATIC fever (Rh.F.) has recently been the object of numerous and extensive Italian studies. These have been carried out more especially in the University Medical Clinics directed by Professors F. Micheli (Turin), Ceconi (Turin) and Frugoni (Rome), and in the Institutes of Pathology directed by Professors Pepere (Milan) and Veratti (Pavia). The point of view of the Roman school was summarised by Chini and Lusena at the Congress of the International League against Rheumatism held in Moscow in May, 1934,23 while that of the school of Micheli was explained by Andrei and myself9 in a lengthy report read before the Sixth National Congress for Microbiology held in Milan in April, 1937. The most extensive researches have been directed towards the problem of aetiology. Some contributions to our knowledge of the clinical course, the differential diagnosis, and the pathology of the disease have also to be mentioned.