The pathology of relapsing fever / by L.J. Pisani.

  • Pisani, L. J.
Date:
1897
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    General Remarks—Evidences for coiisidei'ing the Spirillum the cause of Relapsing Fever. Although in 1843 Dr. Heuderson of Edinburgh, had taught us how to differentiate relapsing fever from other fevers of a continued type, for many years a considerable amount of difficulty appears to have been experienced in accurately diagnosing the disease. In 1868 Dr. Carl Obermeier, an Assis- tant of Professor Virchow, had an opportunity of investigating the first epidemic of relapsing fever, which occurred in Berlin, and although he seems then to have believed that a parasite was found in the blood, he evidently had not sufficiently con- vinced himself of its existence as in his account of 82 cases published by him in Virchow's Archives, Vol. 46 of 1869, he does not allude to the subject. In 1872 the occurrence of a second epidemic in Berlin gave Obermeier a further o])portunity of carrying out observations and of firmly establishing the existence of a spirochcete or spirillum in the blood. His first account of the parasite was pub- lished on 1st March 1873. His observations were soon confirmed by Engel, Weigert, Bliesener, and others, and tiiough at first many observers failed to observe the spiriHum, and others who
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