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According to Wien etal [25E7] some of the other earlier
investigators included Naswitis, who had reported good results
with frozen and rethawed blood only; Dold, who reported good
results with unaltered autoblood in the case of eczema; and
Fauvet who also reported favorable results in cases of
furunculosis, anthrax, mastitis, eczema, skrophulus, and prurigo
erythema.
As summarized by Wein etal [25E7], who incidentally does not
credit Ravaut with priority, numerous authors figured into the
development of hemotherapy in the early 20th century, with
reports of applications in cases of infectious diseases,
influenza, typhus recurrens, Flecktyphus, internal illness,
scarlet fever, measles, and even sleeping sickness, gynecology,
surgery, infantile atrophy, cancerous illnesses, and venereal
diseases - gonorrhea and syphilis. According to Wien as of 1925,
a veritable "blitz" of articles on the use of autohemotherapy in
dermatology had been published during the preceding decade.