Nucleotide Therapy in Agranulocytosis

In recent years many reports ( 1 through 14) have appeared of a condition first described by Schwarz (15) and called by Schultz (16) agranulocytic angina.This is characterized by fever, by intense prostration, by a sore throat, sometimes almost gangrenous in appear- ance, by large purpuric areas on the body which frequently become necrotic, and by a marked leukopenia, especially of the polymor- phonuclear cells.The course is usually acute and the mortality is so