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To the Editor: —The tendency to attach names to surgical procedures, to clinical phenomena and to various laboratory tests is exemplified by the second paper of Dr. W. H. Kellogg (The Journal, March 17, 1923, p. 748) describing a new test for immunity to diphtheria. This test is a modification of the old established method of Romer's for the intradermal demonstration in the guinea-pig of small amounts of diphtheria antitoxin contained in human serum. Ten years ago I used successfully a similar but more accurate modification of this test, which I described later (J. Infect. Dis.19:557 [Oct.] 1916). These antitoxin tests were made by me to establish some of the fundamental principles in the active immunization with toxin-antitoxin before Dr. Park and I introduced the Schick test as a part of the process of active immunization against diphtheria. We were only too glad to discard the routine use of
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