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AUTOHEMOTHERAPY EXPLAINED AS DESENSITIZATION - 33B10
In a follow-up article to 32A1, Burgess 1933 [33B10], p. 339. offered:
"In the present state of our knowledge it would be unwise to be dogmatic concerning the interpretation of skin-reactions, but this work tends to suggest that the blood in these cases contains antigens, and that the injection of the patient's blood or serum leads to desensitization." Burgess cites a study in which 15 patients had given positive skin reactions before treatment. Eleven of these were benefitted by autohemotherapy, and "after treatment and relief negative reactions were obtained. Those cases which were not relieved continued to give positive reactions."
Burgess, 1933 [33B10], 336, "It was found that only 16% of normal controls gave positive reactions to their proteoses, while 67% of those suffering from the skin diseases under consideration [primarily urticaria, psoriasis and eczema] gave positive reactions."

AUTOHEMOTHERAPY: PSORIASIS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST - 33B10
Burgess, 1933 [33B10], 337, notes that the cases of psoriasis are of particular interest: "all the acute cases gave positive skin-reactions, 3 out of 5 cases of sub-acute psoriasis gave positive reactions, while 3 out of 4 cases of chronic psoriasis gave negative reactions to their own proteoses. ... the best results of treatment with autohemotherapy were obtained in acute cases, and the greatest number of failures were among the chronic cases."

AUTOHEMO FOR VARICOSE DERMATITIS - 33B10
Burgess 1933 [33B10], "Consistently good results were obtained in cases of varicose dermatitis of the leg in which a generalized sensitization eruption had occurred; all the cases treated were known to be cured with the exception of three who ceased to attend."

AUTOHEMOTHERAPY RESULTS, VARIOUS DISEASES - 33B10
Burgess 1933 [33B10] results - 39 successes of 58 total cases:

-psoriasis - - - - - - 10/15
-varicose dermatitis - 15/18
-eczema - - - - - - - - 4/10
-urticaria- - - - - - - 2/ 5
-toxic erythema - - - - 3/ 3
-prurigo- - - - - - - - 2/ 3
-furunculosis - - - - - 3/ 3
-pruritis - - - - - - - 0/ 1
TOTAL - - - - - - - - -39/58