The etiology of one of the heterogeneous fevers of India / by C. Donovan.

  • Donovan, C. (Charles), 1863-1951.
Date:
1903
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Credit: The etiology of one of the heterogeneous fevers of India / by C. Donovan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TAT 22200060365 eT AENEOUS FEVERS OF INDIA. By C. DONOVAN, Masor L.M.S., . Second Physician, Government General lfospital, Madras. WirTH reference to my previous contribution to the Brrrisit Mepican JournaL (July 11th, 1903), under the heading ‘On the Possibility of the Oecurrence of Trypanosomiasis in India,” I have to add that the bodies found by me on June 17th last in the blood from the spleen of a native bey have been determined by Laveran and Mesnil as belonging to the genus Piroplasma, species new. I have up to date (November 5th) found these parasites in 16 cases among patients admitted to my wards only, average 50 beds; all from punctures of the spleen and liver during life. I intend to contribute a full account of this fever in a couple of months. Briefly the symptoms are enlarged spleen congestion of the lungs, occasional subcutaneous haemor- rhages and cancrum oris. Medication—quinine, arsenic, sodium salicylate—has proved ineffectual. I may state that Captain Cornwall, I.M.8., and I have found Proplasma, species most probable bigemimum, in the blood of two calves on November ist and 3rd,
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