Enteric fever : its prevalence and modifications, aetiology, pathology and treatment as illustrated by Army data at home and abroad / by Francis H. Welch.

  • Welch Francis H.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Enteric fever : its prevalence and modifications, aetiology, pathology and treatment as illustrated by Army data at home and abroad / by Francis H. Welch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page Prevalence of Enteric Fever in the Service. Definition and theories of civil disease. Statistical tables of army disease from 1860-78. Arrangement of stations as to prevalence and mortality. Tabular grouping of stations as to climate and region. General re- marks on existent conditions in these groups. Table of stations show- ing its relative influence in total sickness and mortality. Deduction on causation from statistics ..... 1—12 Modifications of Army Disease. Fever onset. Eruption. Splenic enlargement. Cardiac derangement. Irregular perspirations. Pyrexia:—summary of civil deductions on temperature, advance to fastigium rarely observable in army, army disease not conformable to civil summaries, summary of temperature details in service, diurnal undulations, contrast of enteric and mala-. rial pyrexia, possible explanation of tropical divergencies. Typo- malarial question:— not based on statistics, ague simulation common to old malarial subjects, European disease, and individuals free from ague, theory probably based on pyrexial undulations and perspirations— observable in uncomplicated enteric fever, hybrid disease rare in army, acknowledgments wanted to settle the point. Enteric fever no causal relation to simple febrile disturbances or other intestinal derange- ments ......... 13—31 ./Etiology. United Kingdom disease details relation of barracks to civil community, station and district returns, influence of special duty, instances of limitation and localization of disease, distribution features as sporadic cases and “ house epidemics,” localizing conditions, ascribed causation of sporadic cases, media, season, age, a disease of early service, mor- tality, summary. Disease on board ship:—details outward bound, possibility of transfer to foreign stations as latent or developed disease, details between foreign stations or from these to home, importation may partially explain present foreign disease. Gibraltar:—experience of new corps, distribution features, disease association, insanitary con- ditions, influence on military, class comparison, season. Malta:—