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
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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een knownunder the term of bilious remittent fever. The attack is generally character-ized in the beginning by well-marked malaria paroxysms, but the temperaturesoon becomes more or less remittent or continuous. Marked jaundice ap-pears and severe vomiting is present, the matter vomited being greatly bile-stained. Epistaxis is common, and hematemesis often occurs. Delirium maybe present or there may be a condition of semi-coma or even coma. The pa-tient often complains of severe pain in the epigastrium and hiccough is oneof the most common symptoms. The temperature curve in well-marked casesis generally remittent or almost continuous, somewhat resembling that oftyphoid fever. If untreated, this form of the disease is almost invariablyfatal, but if properly treated recovery is generally the result. * Of the very rare forms of pernicious malaria may be mentioned the syncopalform, first described by Sternberg, in which syncope occurs upon exertion dur- THE PERNICIOUS MALARIAL PEVERS. 225
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L> 15 2 26 THE PERNICIOUS MALARIAL FEVERS. ing the decline of the fever; the diaphoretic form, characterized by the oc-currence of very profuse sweating, so severe as to produce collapse and death;the exanthematous form, characterized by the occurrence of a scarlatiniformrash upon the skin during the paroxysms, followed by desquamation; thepleuritic form, in which intermittent attacks of sharp, lancinating pain occur inthe side, and, lastly, pernicious infections without fever, which have been de-scribed by Pampoukis, who considers such infections much more dangerousthan those in which the temperature is high. Examination of the Blood in Pernicious Malaria.—The examination ofthe blood during an attack of pernicious malarial fever will almost invariablyresult in the demonstration of large numbers of malarial plasmodia, whateverspecies may be concerned in the etiology of the infection. In no other forms ofmalaria are the plasmodia so numerous in the peripheral blood as in perniciou

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