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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hours reduced thetemperature promptly. The temperature curve in this case is remarkable for its regularity, andbecause of its resemblance to the temperature curve often observed in pulmonarytuberculosis. This resemblance, together with an acute bronchitis which waspresent, led to the case being considered one of phthisis until a microscopicalexamination and the blood cleared up the diagnosis, and quinine cured theinfection. It vvill be observed that the temperature fell below normal aftereach paroxysm. Case V. Chart 10.—C. S. The patient went with his regiment to Santi-ago in August, 1898. He was there about three weeks when he was taken sud-denly ill with fainting spells, as he expressed it. He was taken to the hos-pital and there suffered from severe headache, slight chills, and nausea andnight sweats. Was in the hospital about two weeks and was then returned toduty, but had several relapses, the last one occurring about five weeks before 202 THE AESTIVO-AUTUMNAL MALARIAL FEVERS.
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<; O THE AESTIVO-AUTUMNAL MALARIAL FEVERS. 203 arrival at the Fortress Monroe hospital where he arrived on December 11, 1898,and where I first saw him. While at the latter hospital he suffered from twoattacks of fever attended with chlly sentsations, severe headache, and nausea. Physical Examination.—Patient somewhat emaciated and very anaemic:skin yellow; tongue flabby and coated; heart and lungs normal; spleen not ap-preciably enlarged; liver enlarged; abdomen distended, but not tender; bowelsconstipated. Examination of the Blood.—The blood contained a few typical ring-forms of the quotidian aestivo-autumnal plasmodium, the ring being small,circular in shape, actively amoeboid at times, and unpigmented. Pigmentedforms were also numerous. These were more sharply defined than the ring-forms, were less than one-fourth the size of the infected red corpuscle, and thepigment occurred as a single dot, situated at the center or one side of the para-site. The pigment was perfectly mot

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