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Abstract
The primary immune phenomenon occurring in rheumatoid arthritis seems to be antecedent to the development of rheumatoid factor and may represent production of antibody to an antigen which came from or was produced by an infectious agent. This seems to be the main direction of current investigations concerning the pathogenesis of this disease. The immune phenomena have a therapeutic implication in that synovectomy appears to remove the site of the local immune process.