practice of aspirating these joints for diagnosis. I think that, when a child is admitted with a fever of 101 F. or more, the white blood cells and the polymorphonuclear percentages increased and the joint distended with fluid, the condition war¬ rants aspiration of the joint to determine whether or not pyogenic organisms are present and whether or not the character of the fluid is essentially purulent. I should like to know also at what stage and from what data he decided that conservative Detroit, June 26, 1930.
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