Note on the discovery of a microorganism in Malta Fever / by David Bruce.

  • Bruce, David, Sir, 1855-1931.
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    SEPTEMBER, 1887. ©riginaJ Communiralions, KOTE ON THE DISCOVERY OF A MICRO¬ ORGANISM IN MALTA FEVER. BY SURGEON DAVID BRUCE, M B. EDIN. Station Hospital, VaJctta, Malta. This fever, which does not appear to occur in England, has a wide distiibution in tlie Mediterranean. It is identical with the Rock Fever of Gibraltar, the Neapolitan Fever of Naples, the Country Fever of Constantinople, and the New Fever of Crete. It is also known by various other names, such as Adeno-typhoid, Intermittent-typhoid, Gastric, and Bilious Remittent Fever, Vc. From private correspondence I find that it occins also at Cagliari in Sardinia, Catania in Sicily, Smyrna, and Tunis. On further investigation I have no doubt this list could he much enlarged, and this fever found to extend further eastward, and ]uany of tlie so-called remittent fevers of India foui^d to he idcmtical with it. Although a considerable number of communications on the clinical aspects of this fever have been published, there is, as fiir as I am aware, no notice regarding the jiresence of micro- urbanisms in the orbans of fatal cases. Before describing the cases in which I have found a special form of micro-organism, I may briefly sketch the promi¬ nent features of the fever. It is a disease of long duration, The Practitioner—Vol.’xxxix. No. 3. M