Author : George Tucker Harrison
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282625252
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (252 download)
Book Synopsis Gaillard's Medical Journal, Vol. 70 by : George Tucker Harrison
Download or read book Gaillard's Medical Journal, Vol. 70 written by George Tucker Harrison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gaillard's Medical Journal, Vol. 70: January, 1899 Captain Hughes said: Besides abortive and undefined short cases of fever, there is a short attack, often called febricula, which appears to be of a specific nature. It is common in hot countries, and attacks almost every one there, often year after year, and in a large num ber of cases at the same time of each year. It is a filth disease, and not the result of exposure to sun. The pyrexia lasts some three or four days, with pain in the back and head, foul tongue, and but little else. In the army and navy we are frightfully handicapped by two points, which the authorities in many places have not yet relinquished: (1) That there is a disease called typho-malarial fever. Though abolished from the Nomenclature at last, it still comes to the fore. There is no difference between enteric fever attacking a malarialized subject and enteric fever attacking a syphilized or tuberculous subject from a nosological point of view while the condition may be compared to a broken leg complicating a case of enteric or other attack of fever. Though the two diseases coexist, their coexistence does not constitute a new disease. (2) Enteric fever is enteric fever all the world over, and does not become a climatic disease directly we leave the confines of Europe or America. Conse quently preventive measures are called for in India as in England. An Englishman and his wife, who live long in India, may alter their habits and even appearance to suit their new environments, but for all that they and their children continue to be English. So the enteric poison may become modified in virulence, etc., by climatological or topographical conditions; but it does not cease to be enteric fever, the result of the enteric microbe, and therefore of a preventable nature. Anomalous forms of fever, which may seem to negative this view, need working out, when they will be found to have their own cause. Lastly, Mediterranean, Malta or undulant fever is a specific disease, and probably exists in many warm climates. It is the result of the micrococcus melitensis, and has no connection whatever with enteric fever, however much it may re semble that disease clinically in some cases; in spite of the fact that it appears in the Nomenclature as No. 17 (a) (enterica being No. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
