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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uggestiveof malarial fever; pyelitis attended by chills and fever; the early stages of theeruptive fevers; relapsing fever, in which the demonstration of the spirochaetaein the blood is sufficient to establish the diagnosis, and trypanosojniasis, whichdepends for its diagnosis upon the demonstration in the blood of Trypanosomagamhiense. All of these conditions may be easily differentiated from themalarial fevers by a careful microscopical examination of the blood. Tuberculosis.—Many cases of tuberculosis, especially if complicated bya streptococcus infection, exhibit a temperature curve closely resembling that ofa double tertian or a quotidian aestivo-autumnal infection, and there may also bedaily chills or chilly sensations, while the patient presents the anaemia and thefacies so often observed in long-continued malarial infections. There is noenlargement of the spleen, however, and an examination *of the chest will show 336 DIAGNOSIS, PROPHYLAXIS, AND TREATMENT OE MALARIAL FEVERS.
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1-1 DIAGNOSIS, PROPHYLAXIS, AND TREATMENT OF MALARIAL FEVERS. 337 lesions not found in malaria. The examination of the blood for the malarialPlasmodia and of the sputum for Bacillus tuberculosis will definitely establishthe diagnosis. Not very rarely cases of tuberculosis are complicated by someform of malarial infection, and thus an examination of the blood is of greatimportance, as the discovery of the malarial infection and its removal willgreatly benefit the patient. Such cases are usually stumbled upon accidentallywhile examining the blood of tubercular patients for leucocytosis, but it shouldbe a routine practice, in malarial regions, to examine the blood of all tubercularpatients, presenting chills and a temperature above 100° F., for the malarialPlasmodia. (Chart No. 20.) Hepatic Abscess.—In regions where amoebic dysentery is endemic, cer-tain patients suffering from hepatic abscess due to the amoebae may presentsymptoms which closely simulate those of malarial fever; thus,

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