Malaria and the causation of intermittent fever / by Henry B. Baker.

  • Baker, Henry B. (Henry Brooks), 1837-1920.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Malaria and the causation of intermittent fever / by Henry B. Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \t] MALARIA AnV^E^C^^ATION OF INTERMiT^J^-iPEVER. Dr. Tommasi-Crudeli and others have claimed that intermittent fever is caused by a bacillus. Drs. Laveran, Osier, Council^nd others have proved, to their own satisfaction at least, that intermittent fever is caused by a microscopic hsematozoon. At the meeting of the American Medical Asso- ciation in Cincinnati, in May, 1888, I presented what I then considered and still consider to be incontrovertible evidence that intermittent fever is caused by exposure to changes of atmospheric temperature,—that, ordinarily, its causation is quantitatively related to, and apparently con- trolled by the range of atmospheric temperature.' It seems to me that both these lines of evidence, which appear to be so divergent, may be true. I feel sure that my own line is. And I have very great confidence in those who have presented the other line of evidence in which they are ex- pert. Therefore, although those who have held the germ theory of the causation of intermittent fever have not, so far as I know, accepted the evidence which I have collected and published, yet I feel impelled to again ask attention to it. I attempt this the more readily, because the facts and considerations, which it seems to me to make it appear possible that both lines of evidence may * “Malaria and the Causation of Periodic Fever,” Journal Amer. Med. Association, Nov. lo, 1888.