Abstract
According to Bessau, Schwenke and Pringsheim,<sup>1</sup>Renault and Levy,<sup>2</sup>Lereboullet, Marie and Brizard,<sup>3</sup>there is no change in the Schick test during the course of measles. Moshage and Kolmer<sup>4</sup>deduced from studies with the Schick test that there was an increased susceptibility to diphtheria in persons suffering from scarlet fever. Zingher<sup>5</sup>found twice as many positive reactions to the Schick test in patients with scarlet fever as in normal persons and three times as many in patients with poliomyelitis; he also noted that patients with measles had a somewhat increased number of positive reactions as compared to a normal group. Zingher did not believe that this was a temporary effect caused by these diseases, as some of his patients who had a positive reaction to the Schick test during the acute stage of a disease, had positive reactions when tested as late as the sixth
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