Selected Monographs.

  • New Sydenham Society
Date:
1888
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    was gorged with grumous blood. Both lungs edematous with diffuse hyperemia, and some recent ecchymoses. We here see rise up from the action of the liquid prepared from the hill marsh (which after filtering produced the weak infection in No. VIII.) a true pernicious fever, which killed the animal in 36 hours, and in the course of which, bacillus malaria, diffused through the body, accumulated in the spleen and bone marrow, where it attained a very high development.* The doubts which might in this case exist, from the complication of suppurations in the back, will vanish from the study of the following case, in which the malarious infection produced by the same material ran its course without complication of any kind. This com- plication was probably due to the fact that the earth employed contained much excrementitious matter, and might easily cause suppurative inflammation. Of a liquid prepared in the same way from earth derived from the hill marsh of Valchetta unfiltered, were injected 6*4 cc. into the back of No. XIII. (May 14th, 8 a.m.), which had been under observation for three previous days, and not used in any other experiment. From the importance of the case, we think it well to give in addition to the temp, curve (Table V., curve XIII.) the table of figures. Table VI.—Temperature and Weight of No. XIII. Day. Hour. May 12 >r M W JJ » a ii ii it ii a a a 13 a a a a a a a 4 6 8 10 6 8 10 12 2 4 6 8 p.m. » a.m. a noon p.m. a a a Temp. 39-5 3935 39-3 39-2 393 397 393 39-5 39 9 397 3^3 398 Weight l,567gr. Day. Hour. Temp. May 13 10 p.m. 39-65 » 14 6 a.m. 39 6 )) » 8 » 39 5 a a 10 » 40-5 a a 12 noon 40-1 a » 2 p.m. 41-1 » )> 4 !5 41-5 a a 6 JJ 41-2 a a 8 ii 41-15 a a 10 a 41-2 „ 15 6 a.m. 374 » )) 8 1 u>f Weight. Observations. l,481gr Injection. Found dead. * It is important to notice that the greatest malarious infections (XII, XIII and XIV.) were produced by soil which had for three days been subjected to treatment,which as we have said already, impedes the development of afgee, and arrests it at the outset m mud, in which it was most luxuriant, a fact which has an important bearin- on the o .servations of Salisbury and Balestra. °