Identifier: malarialfeversha1909crai (find matches)
Title: The malarial fevers, haemoglobinuric fever and the blood protozoa of man
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Craig, Charles Franklin, 1872-1950
Subjects: Malaria Blackwater fever Blood Malaria Blackwater Fever
Publisher: New York : William Wood and Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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s, however, the curve muchresembles that of typhoid fever, there being slight daily remissions; this is es-pecially true of the subcontinued fevers due to the quotidian Plasmodium.The chart shown is fairly typical of such a fever. (Chart No. i6.) The duration of the subcontinued or remittent fevers may be severalweeks, but usually spontaneous recovery or death occurs within three weeks.If properly treated, the symptoms are easily controlled within a week, althoughin very rare instances the plasmodia may be very resistant to quinine and persistfor eight or ten days. An examination of the blood, if carefully made andrepeated, if necessary, will invariably demonstrate one or perhaps both of theaestivo-autumnal stages of development. Very rarely a sporulating organismmay be seen in the peripheral blood. The point of greatest importance to remember regarding subcontinuedforms of malaria is that these infections pursue a more or less continuous or OTHER VARIETIES OF THE MALARIAL FEVERS. 255
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tM 256 OTHER VARIETIES OF THE MALARIAL FEVERS. remittent course as regards the temperature, resembling typhoid fever orother febrile processes clinically, and that the only way of quickly diagnosingthem is by the microscopical examination of the blood. These fevers are aptto become pernicious at any time, and death may occur suddenly, so that aprompt diagnosis and proper treatment is of the very greatest importance. Mixed Malarial Infections.—Any of the species of the malarial plasmodiamay occur together, thus causing what is known as a mixed or combinedinfection. Such infections are very common in some localities and are rarein others, as would be expected. In those localities in which more than onetype of malaria is common, mixed infections are common, while in those inwhich only one type of infection occurs, they will be absent or very rarelyoccur as imported cases. In 2,803 cases of malaria occurring in soldiers who contracted their infectionin Cuba and in the Philippines, I obs

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