Typhoid Fever Considered as a Problem of Scientific Medicine

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Macmillan, 1918 - Typhoid fever - 286 pages

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Page vii - LOMBARD, 1836. fever, and that it was eminently contagions ; while, on the other hand, enteric fever was rarely communicated. He showed that the lesions of Peyer's patches and of the mesenteric glands, invariably present in the latter, were never found in the former, and remarked that English observers erred in regarding the intestinal disease as a mere complication of typhus. He insisted on the ' marked difference between the petechial eruption of typhus and the rose-coloured spots of typhoid fever...
Page 263 - Hazen's theorem asserts that for every death from typhoid fever avoided by the purification of a polluted public water supply two or three deaths are avoided from other causes.
Page 275 - Illustrated with 105 polygraphic, 82 electrocardiographs, and 5o orthodiascopic (X-Ray) tracings as well as 19 other illustrations. Most of these illustrations are original. Cloth, 8vo. $4.00 In the many recent books on cardiac disease, there has been much confusion regarding the proportionate value of graphic methods, with the result that undue emphasis has been placed upon purely instrumental and technical considerations. This book includes the graphic as well as the usual bedside methods and is...
Page 263 - HH 1915 An Investigation into the Causes of the Prevalence of Enteric Fever in Kingston, Jamaica; with Special Reference to the Question of Unrecognized Carriers. Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasit. 9(2):239-284, 10 charts. Flies are especially numerous during "mango season
Page 274 - ... employment as found in Dr. Dakin's recent broad experience on the various European war fronts. The current European practice is here, for the first time, collected into concrete condensed form. The book contains results of much of the investigation carried out under the direction of the British Medical Research Committee. It also presents, for the first time, unique methods of using certain disinfectants for the sterilization of drinking water and the disinfection of hospital ships, together...
Page 27 - ... note how the Hippocratic theories still hold the field in a modified form — or indirectly by means of the clothing or utensils that have been handled by the patient.
Page 266 - The bacteriolytic power of normal human sera and typhoid patients' sera for typhoid bacilli and an inquiry into the theoretical basis for the treatment of typhoid fever with vaccine administered intravenously.
Page 276 - Howard, 1869The clinical pathology of the blood of domesticated animals, by Samuel Howard Burnett ... With four colored plates and twenty-four figures. Ithaca, NY, Taylor & Carpenter, 1908/ 8-19598 xi, 156 p. illus., 4 col. pi. 24"".
Page 264 - Typhoid Meningitis: Cultivation of Bacillus Typhosus from Meninges and Mesenteric Lymph Node in a Case of General Paresis, with a Note on Experimental Typhoid Meningitis in the Guinea Pig.
Page 269 - Étude sur le sérodiagnostic et sur la réaction agglutinante chez les typhiques.

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