Bacteriological and clinical studies of the diarrheal diseases of infancy : with reference to the bacillus dysenteriæ (shiga) from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research / edited by Simon Flexner and L. Emmett Holt.

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1904
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    (investigation of 1902.) BY CHARLES W. DUVAL AND VICTOR H. BASSETT. From the Laboratory of the Thomas Wilson Sanitarium, Baltimore.* The successful studies of Japanese dysentery by Shiga in 1898, which led to the isolation of B. dysenteriae and its demonstration as the cause of acute endemic dysentery were followed by the studies of acute tropi- cal dysentery in Manila by Flexner1 in 1900 and epidemic dysentery in Germany by Kruse2 in 1901 with results confirming the observations of Shiga. Since that time a considerable number of observations bear- ing upon and extending the studies just mentioned have been carried out both in the United States and elsewhere. Inasmuch as the or- ganism has also been obtained from cases of dysentery in troops re- turning from China,4 in Constantinople,5 in Italy6 and other European countries,7 its wide diffusion in nature as well as its pathogenicity are clearly evident. *[A brief preliminary report of the results of this investigation was pub- lished in American Medicine, September 13, 1902, Vol. IV, p. 417. The present article and the following one by Dr. Knox, which contain the full reports, were ready for publication in October, 1902, and are here published in their original form. In consequence of the unfortunate delay in publication for which the authors are not responsible, later articles upon the same subject have been pub- lished without full knowledge of the detailed results obtained by Messrs. (now Drs.) Duval and Bassett in the summer of 1902, whose investigations at that time were the first to demonstrate an etiological relationship between the bacillus of dysentery and infantile summer diarrhea, and will remain of fundamental importance.—Wm. H. Welch.] 1. The Johns Hopkins Bulletin, February, 1900. 2. Deutsche med. Wochnschr., 1901, XXVII, 370. 3. Loc. cit. 4. Pfuhl, Veroffentlichungen auf dem Gebiete des Militar-Sanitatswesens, 1902, 65. 5. Deycke, Deutsche med. Wchnschr., 1901, XXVII, 10. 6. Celli. Personal communication and culture sent. 7. Th. Muller, Centralblatt fur Bakteriol. u. Parasitenkunde, 1902, XXXI, 558. Rosenthal, Deutsche med. Wchnschr., 1903, XXIX, 97.