The relations of chronic villous polyarthritis to the dumb-bell shaped bacilli / by Max Schueller.

  • Schüller, Max, 1843-1907.
Date:
1906
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Credit: The relations of chronic villous polyarthritis to the dumb-bell shaped bacilli / by Max Schueller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dumb-bell shaped bacilli. Staining with Gram and cultures, which I made after the last operation, proved the error: there were no gonococci, but only dumb-bell bacilli. Summing up, I wish to say that I am convinced the disease which I described as polyarthritis chronica villosa is caused only by the bacillus which I have called dumb-bell shaped, and not by any other kind or form, and that this disease has no near etiological relations with acute rheumatic arthritis. It is to be hoped that my statements given in this paper wall induce others to make further investigation. I shall be especially gratified if American colleagues will follow Dr. Fayerweather, to whom I am thankful for his interest in my labors, in studying the matter on a larger scale.