Polyarteritis (polyarteritis nodosa) is a multi-system connective tissue disorder involving small and medium-sized arteries throughout the body. Occasionally, however, the condition is clinically localized to a few systems, such as skin and muscle, and it appears that in these circumstances the disease often follows a relatively benign course (Rose, 1957; Rotstein and Good, 1958). In this paper...

A survey of the literature on diseases of children reveals the fact that there is a widely-held opinion that children of one type are more prone than those of other types to rheumatism in its various forms. The description of the incriminated type, however, varies so much with different writers as to make correlation difficult. Further, but few writers quote positive evidence in support of thei...