Tropical diseases

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William Wood & Company, 1906 - Всего страниц: 756
 

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Стр. 355 - Fig. 3, which is taken from the Annual Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India for...
Стр. 220 - At the end of the third and the beginning of the second century Palestine was a shuttlecock tossed between the Ptolemies and the Seleucids; but in the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes (c.
Стр. xxi - The more we learn about these diseases, the less important in its bearing on their geographic distribution, and as a direct pathogenic agency, becomes the role of temperature per se, and the more the influence of the tropical fauna.
Стр. 555 - ... lymphangitis ; varicose groin glands ; varicose axillary glands ; lymph scrotum ; cutaneous and deep lymphatic varix ; orchitis ; chyluria ; elephantiasis of the leg, scrotum, vulva, arm, mamma, and elsewhere ; chylous dropsy of the tunica vaginalis ; chylous ascites ; chylous...
Стр. 629 - Barbadoes tar and linseed-oil, in the proportion of one of the former to three of the latter, will be the most effectual external application, while alteratives and physic should be given internally.
Стр. 227 - Oriental towns and without any apparent alteration in the habits or circumstances of the population, the disease, after having become epidemic, dies out spontaneously. It may be difficult to indicate the exact way or ways in which filth and overcrowding operate, but certain it is, as experience has shown, that in sanitary hygienic conditions plague does not spread, even if introduced, and that in opposite conditions it may for a time spread like wildfire.
Стр. iv - A manual on the diseases of warm climates, of handy size, and yet giving adequate information, has long been a want ; for the exigencies of travel and of tropical life are, as a rule, incompatible with big volumes and large libraries.
Стр. 200 - Similar stories, illustrative of the sudden incidence of the symptoms, circulate during every epidemic of dengue. Sometimes the fever is ushered in by a feeling of chilliness or even by a smart rigor; sometimes a deep flushing of the face is the first sign of the disease. However introduced, fever rapidly increases. The head and eyeballs ache excessively, and some limb or .joint, or even the whole body, is racked with peculiar stiff, rheumatic-like pains, which, as the patient soon discovers, are...
Стр. 99 - ... already, have a corresponding periodicity. We have also seen that the commencement of the fever in each case corresponds with the breaking up of the sporulating form of the parasite concerned. This last is an important point ; for, doubtless, when this breaking up takes place...
Стр. 53 - ... of parasites giving rise to it. If all the parasites present are of nearly the same age, they mature approximately simultaneously, and we have an intermittent ; if they are of different ages, they mature at different times scattered over the twenty-four hours, and we have what was known as a remittent.

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