Abstract
Macdonald and Hewell and one of us 1 have summarized elsewhere the clinical and bacteriologic observations on children in an epidemic of pleurodynia in Cincinnati. Seventy-four children suffering from this condition were admitted to the Children's Hospital during the summer of 1935. Twenty-six of this group were studied bacteriologically. Attlee, Amsler and Beaumont 2 studied an epidemic in Eton College, England, among forty-eight boys from 14 to 18 years of age. They found some colonies of Staphylococcus aureus and a free growth of streptococci. Wood, 3 who saw a large number of patients, observed that blood cultures and agglutination tests for Bacillus typhosus and Bacillus paratyphosus A and B were negative and that smears from throats showed only organisms normally present. Churchill, Landis and Glusker 4 observed An Epidemic of Undetermined Origin; Dengue? in which there were fifty cases. They reported that cultures of material from the throats of eleven
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