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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ions occur very much more frequentlythan do the quotidian infections, the latter type being comparatively rare.Thus of 1,662 aestivo-autumnal infections, personally observed, 1,473 were dueto the tertian aestivo-autumnal plasmodium and only 189 to the quotidianaestivo-autumnal plasmodium. The aestivo-autumnal infections occur most frequently in temperateregions during the months of July, August, September, and October, but in thetropics they persist throughout the year, although they are most numerousduring the latter portion of the rainy season and at the beginning of the dryseason. In describing the symptoms of the aestivo-autumnal infections I shallmention here only those observed in ordinary attacks, leaving the descriptionof the symptoms of pernicious attacks for a succeeding chapter. The symptomsof this group of malarial fevers are very apt to be atypical and the descriptionswhich follow apply only to the fevers as usually observed. THE SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF THE MALARIAL FEVERS. 179
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H U l8o THE SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF THE MALARIAL FEVERS. Symptoms of Tertian Aestivo-autumnal Malaria (Non-pernicious Type).—^Patients suffering from this type of malaria will generally present thefollowing symptoms: Prodromal.—The prodromal symptoms are loss of appetite, slight head-ache, evanescent pains in the back and legs, nervousness, increased urination,and a general feeling of malaise. In some instances the onset is sudden, thepatient having felt well until the appearance of marked symptoms. As intertian and quartan infections, three stages may be distinguished. Theparoxysms occur every forty-eight hours and correspond in time with thesporulation of Plasmodium falciparum. The Cold Stage or Chill.—This is generally initiated by yawningand the patient complains of headache, slight nausea, perhaps accompanied byvomiting, and often intense nervousness. In a majority of the cases there areno distinct chills, but the patient complains of chilly creeping sensationsalong the spinal co

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