Lectures on the malarial fevers / by William Sydney Thayer.

  • William Sydney Thayer
Date:
1901
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    made, the more important communications coming from Antolisei and Angelini * Patella,t Term and Giardina,t Bas- tianelli and Bignami * Sanfelici, || in Italy; Grassi and Feletti,A in Sicily; Sakharov,<) Korolko4 Titov^ and Gotye^ in Kussia; Mannaberg ** in Austria; Plehn ff and Kamen,^ in Germany; Dock** KoplikJ || Hewetson, and myself,^'in the United States. The main point of difference has been in the interpreta- tion of the crescentic and ovoid bodies. It is generally ac- knowledged that these arise for the most part in the internal organs, particularly in the spleen and bone marrow, and may appear in the blood from the fifth day on, but usually not be- fore the end of the first or the beginning of the second week. It has been noted that while all other forms of the organism disappear rapidly under treatment by quinine, the crescents alone are very resistant, remaining in the circulation in some instances for months. Antolisei and Angelini, Terni,^ Grassi and Feletti, and Sakharov agree with Canalis in believing these bodies capable of segmentation, the latter two observers classifying them as a special variety of the parasite. The majority, however, assert that the crescents are incapable of proliferation by sporulation, and suspect that they are sterile bodies, some holding that they constitute a more resistant form of the * (a) Arch. Ital. d. clin. med., 1890, 1. (6) Riforma medica, 1890, 320, 326, 332. f Op. cit. t Op. cit. * Riforma medica, 1890, 1334, 1340. I Fortschr. d. Med., 1891, ix, 499, 541, 581. A Op. cit. 0 (a) Op. cit. (b) Ann. de l'institute Pasteur, 1891, 445-449. $ Op. cit. $ Op. cit. £ Op. cit. ** Op. cit. ft Virch- Archiv, 1892, cxxix, 285. XX Op. cit. ** Op. cit. 11| Op. cit. Op. cit. Gaz. d. osp., Milano, 1890, xvi, 3.