An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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POYNTON, Frederick John

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The etiology of rheumatic fever.

Lancet, 2, 861-69, 932-35, 1900.

After extensive bacteriological researches, Poynton and Paine considered that a diplococcus was the cause of rheumatic fever.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Gram-Negative Bacteria › Diplococcus, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Rheumatic Fever