On the Throat as the Source of Systemic Infection in Acute Rheumatism
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چکیده
If acute rheumatism (by which term I refer only to that affection that is now very generally regarded as a disease sui generis, variously designated as "true rheumatism," "rheu-matic fever," " acute rheumatism," &c.) is an infective disease due to a specific microorganism , it follows that there are portals by which the infecting agent gains entrance to the tissues, and it seems probable that the throat furnishes that point of entry in a considerable, if not the most considerable, percentage of patients.
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