Abstract
This preliminary communication presents the possibility that some cases of deformans (type I) may be protean manifestations of an unrecognized infection with a bacillus of dysentery. Four of the seven cases of idiopathic to be reported were found to have evidence either of an active or of a past infection with a dysentery bacillus. Jones and Lovett 1 have gathered all of the nontuberculous and nonrheumatic arthritides of unknown etiology into one group called arthritis deformans, this term being used synonymously with chronic nontuberculous arthritis, rheumatoid gout, osteo-arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic rheumatic arthritis, chronic rheumatism, and infectious or toxic arthritis. This large group of deformans is itself divided into two widely separated types of arthritis; the first division being synonymously called type I, or proliferative (referring to the synovial membrane) or atrophic (referring to the bony changes); the second division is called type II, or degenerative (referring
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