The Physician And Surgeon Vol 14 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Physician and Surgeon, Vol. 14: A Journal of the Medical Sciences; January-December, 1892 We hear and read of typho-malarial fever. Now, I do not believe there is such a disease, and the name is a misnomer. A person may have malarial organisms in the system and at the same time be attacked with enteric fever. As a consequence there may be and often is a chill followed by a greater rise in temperature and then a remission, but never an intermission. Ou examining the blood of such a patient the plasmodium will be found. By giving a few good doses of quinine the chill is arrested, but the fever goes on and runs its regular course. Again, a person living in a malarious district having typhoid, when convalescing may be attacked with malaria owing to the perverted condi tion of the blood and impaired state of the nervous system due to the long illness and after the enteric fever proper has run its course, but in neither of these cases can this be properly called typho-malarial fever. The bacillus of typhoid and 'the organism of malaria are separate and distinct poisons, and are not produced from the same causes although they enter the body by the same channels, but it has yet to be proved that the germ that produces malaria will cause typhoid, or that the bacillus that attacks the mesenteric glands and Peyer's patches will induce malaria in any form, and I think the sooner we recognize this fact the better. 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.