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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illustration of a case in which there existeda combined infection with the tertian and the tertian aestivo-autumnal plasmo-dium and in which the aestivo-autumnal and tertian paroxysms occurredindependently of one another. This is the only instance of the kind I haveever observed and I believe that this chart is unique in the literature of themalarial fevers. A blood examination in this case demonstrated the presence ofboth species of plasmodium, and the life cycle of the tertian plasmodium couldbe easily followed in the peripheral blood and correpsonded with the chart. The Symptoms of Chronic Malarial Infection and Malarial Cachexia.—I have already described the pathology of chronic malarial infection andmalarial cachexia and have spoken of the changes occurring in the blood in suchinfections. In patients who have suffered from repeated attacks of malarial fever,which have not been properly treated, there develops a peculiar condition, the OTHER VARIETIES OF THE MALARIAL FEVERS. 257
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H h u 17 258 OTHER VARIETIES OF THE MALARIAL FEVERS. most characteristic symptoms of which are a more or less severe anemia and agreatly enlarged spleen. This so-called malarial cachexia is most frequentlyobserved in tropical regions in which the aestivo-autumnal infections areendemic and least frequently in localities in which only tertian fevers arepresent. It is especially apt to develop after latent and masked infections,which have gone untreated because unrecognized. While malarial cachexia is a common condition in natives of tropicalregions, and in Europeans who have long resided in such regions, it is by nomeans as common as many writers would lead us to believe. Since the dis-covery that kala-azar is a distinct disease, for instance, it has become necessaryto revise our conceptions of the pathology and symptomatology of malarialcachexia, for kala-azar was long believed to be a chronic malarial infectionand many of our classical descriptions of that condition were based upon th

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