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AUTOSERO: PSORIASIS - 14H2
In 1914 Fox [14H2] described the use of autogenous serum in the treatment of 28 psoriasis patients, 17 females and 11 males, from ages 11 to 54. Different forms of the disease were represented, including "the guttae, mummular and diffuse" of varying grades of severity.

AUTOSEROTHERAPY METHOD - 14H2
Fox's technic consisted of drawing 50cc of blood from the cubital vein, centrifuge it at 1800 rpm, and when the serum was thoroughly separated from corppuscles and fibrin, drawing it of in a glass syringe and injecting it "without delay, either intravenously or intramuscularly. The amount of serum obtained varied between 15 and 25 cc. The entire procedure was completed in under a half-hour. Generally at least 3 injections were given, at intervals of from 3-5 days, each followed by local application of a 10% chrysarobin ointment. [It is noted that Fox used both intravenous and intramuscular reinjection.]

AUTOSEROTHERAPY RESULTS - 14H2
"The results of the treatment in general were very satisfactory and in some of the cases decidedly brilliant." One psoriasis patient characterized the results as "perfectly marvelous", another "like magic"; particularly pleased was "a man who was relieved of his psoriasis for the first time in 24 years."

AUTOSEROTHERAPY SAFETY, WITH VENOUS BLOOD - 14H2
"No ill effects from the serum treatment were observed except in one case in which the 3rd injection was followed by a rather violent urtivaria lasting a week. Urticarial rashes were also observed by Linser in several cases, generally lasting from 12 to 24 hours [non-autogenous injections]. In the case of autogenous serum injections, it is hardly conceivable that any serious ill evvects could result when proper aseptic precautions were observed.

AUTOSEROTHERAPY AS VENESECTION? - 14H2
"The idea naturally presents itself that the beneficial action might be solely due to the bloodletting. That this therapeutic measure may lessen the intensity of some inflammatory skin diseases there can be no doubt; that the results obtained were due, however, to the injections of the serum and not merely to the venipuncture has been shown by comparative tests with the two methods of treatment."