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A Manual of Tropical Medicine

This manual had its origin in World War II and the fourth edition now appears to meet a similar need of American troops operating in a tropical region. Its usefulness is far broader. American medicine now reaches into developing countries through programs of international aid, long-term prospective field research, and Peace Corps activities. Many countries in their newly acquired independence take on a direct responsibility. The book serves well as a teaching medium; it retains its greatest value as a field manual with much information in compact form. Infectious diseases, nutritional disorders, and a brief concern of the tropical environment are the basic features. Parasitology, along with related subjects of arthropod vectors, pesticides and medically important animals, forms about one-half of the text. Chapters on viral diseases are rewritten. The great quarantinable diseases have full consideration, notably cholera and its recently active El Tor variant. New features are dengue fever and the allied hemorrhagic fevers, and kuru. The work is in the Manson tradition, up to date and authoritative with its 37 contributors. Tropical medicine however is no longer restricted to a hard core of military officers, medical missionaries, and colonial administrators. A variety of amateurs, medical beginners and nonmedical workers, need knowledge of the everyday features of disease in the tropics. Measles, whooping cough, and the other common communicable diseases of childhood are not included, despite their significance as causes of death and their clinical individuality in tropical regions. Future editions might well extend consideration of the tropical environment beyond the risks inherent in heat and humidity: to ways of life, water supply, the social and economic determinants of ill health; in a wvord, to the specific features of a tropical preventive medicine. With their broad experience, the authors are admirably suited to this larger demand. JOHN GORDON

Acanthocheilonema perstans; the persistent filaria: with a report of six cases.

Case Reports1 March 1954ACANTHOCHEILONEMA PERSTANS—THE PERSISTENT FILARIA: WITH A REPORT OF SIX CASESJEROME A. ECKER, M.D., LEONARD L. LOVSHIN, M.D., ALFRED REICH, B.S.JEROME A. ECKER, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, LEONARD L. LOVSHIN, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, ALFRED REICH, B.S.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-40-3-611 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptBetween June, 1952, and June, 1953, six patients who had been living in African missions were seen at the Cleveland Clinic with a diagnosis of infestation with Acanthocheilonema perstans. This report summarizes the six cases and emphasizes the importance of blood examination of persons who have been in endemic areas, especially if eosinophilia is present.CASE REPORTSCase 1. A 44 year old woman, a missionary, was first seen on June 5, 1952. She had spent 12 years in the Belgian Congo and had always been in excellent health. There were no symptoms of filariasis such as lymphangitis, lymphadenitis, fever,...Bibliography1. Belding DL: Textbook of clinical pathology, 2nd Ed., 1952, D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc., New York, pp. 502-504. Google Scholar2. CraigFaust CREC: Clinical parasitology, 5th Ed., 1951, Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, pp. 428-429. Google Scholar3. StittCloughClough ERPWMC: Practical bacteriology, haematology and animal parasitology, 9th Ed., 1938, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, pp. 621, 687. Google Scholar4. , A manual of tropical medicine, prepared by Mackie, T. T., Hunter, G. W., III, and Worth, C. B., 1945, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, p. 331. Google Scholar5. Sharp NA: Filaria perstans; its development in Culicoides austeni , Tr. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. and Hyg. 21: 371, 1928. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. Fain A: Ann. Soc. belge de méd. trop. 27: 25, 1947. Google Scholar7. Bowie JH: Filariasis (Honyman Gillespie lecture), Edinburgh M. J. 57: 561, 1950. MedlineGoogle Scholar8. Hawking F: Some recent work on filariasis, Tr. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. and Hyg. 44: 153, 1950. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Cleveland, Ohio*Received for publication July 20, 1953.From the Cleveland Clinic and the Frank E. Bunts Educational Institute. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 March 1954Volume 40, Issue 3Page: 611-615KeywordsBloodEosinophiliaFeversFilariasisLymphangitisPediatrics ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 March 1954 PDF downloadLoading ...

THE HEART RATE IN MALARIA; A REVIEW OF NINETY CASES

Article1 September 1947THE HEART RATE IN MALARIA; A REVIEW OF NINETY CASESSHERMAN M. MELLINKOFF, JOHN R. HIGGINSSHERMAN M. MELLINKOFFSearch for more papers by this author, JOHN R. HIGGINSSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-27-3-433 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptMost textbooks state that the typical malaria patient exhibits chills, fever, and tachycardia.1, 2, 3, 4, 5This clinical triad is frequently helpful in the differential diagnosis that runs through the physician's mind when he first sees a patient in a malarious zone. Among army personnel in certain regions of Asia, for example, it is common to see an acutely ill, prostrated man with chills and fever, while the physical examination gives no clue to the diagnosis except the heart rate. On the basis of probability in this particular locality, when there is a relative bradycardia one thinks of the...Bibliography1. STRONG R: Stitt's Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of tropical diseases, 1944, Blakiston Co., Philadelphia, pages 67 and 77. Google Scholar2. NAPIER LE: The principles and practice of tropical medicine, 1946, Macmillan Co., page 81. Google Scholar3. MANSON-BAHR PH: Tropical diseases, 1945, Cassell and Co., Ltd., London, page 67. Google Scholar4. MACKIEHUNTERWORTH TTGWCB: Manual of tropical medicine, 1945, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, page 243. Google Scholar5. CRAIGFAUST CFEC: Clinical parasitology, 1940, Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia, page 206. Google Scholar6. JONES AN: Malignant malaria on the gold coast, Ann. Trop. Med., 1944, xxxviii, 2. Google Scholar7. NOEHREN TH: The malaria triad, Ann. Int. Med., 1946, xxiv, 299. Google Scholar8. HYMAN AS: Clinical masquerades of malaria, U. S. Nav. Med. Bull., 1945, xlv, 297. Google Scholar9. HUGHESBOMFORD SBRR: Clinical features and treatment of malaria in British troops in West Africa, Brit. Med. Jr., 1944, i, 71. Google Scholar10. The War Office Memoranda on Medical Diseases in Tropical and Subtropical Areas, 1942, Chemical Publishing Co., London. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication November 22, 1946. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byTrajectories of the heart rate characteristics index, a physiomarker of sepsis in premature infants, predict Neonatal ICU mortalityPathologic physiology and chemotherapy of Plasmodium berghei 1 September 1947Volume 27, Issue 3Page: 433-440KeywordsArmed forcesBradycardiaFeversHeart rateMalaria ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 September 1947 PDF downloadLoading ...

A Manual of Tropical Medicine (A Military Medical Manual)

A Manual of Tropical Medicine (A Military Medical Manual)

Military Medical Manuals—A Manual of Tropical Medicine.

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Tropical Medicine: Manual of Tropical Medicine . Prepared under the auspices of the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council. By Thomas T. Mackie, George W. Hunter, III and C. Brooke Worth. 727 pp., including 287 illustrations. W. B. Saunders' Company. 1945.

Tropical Medicine: <i>Manual of Tropical Medicine</i> . Prepared under the auspices of the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council. By Thomas T. Mackie, George W. Hunter, III and C. Brooke Worth. 727 pp., including 287 illustrations. W. B. Saunders' Company. 1945.

A Manual of Tropical Medicine

A Manual of Tropical Medicine

MANUAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE. Prepared under the Auspices of the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council

MANUAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE. Prepared under the Auspices of the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council

The Classification of Bacterial Dysenteries and of Dysentery Bacilli

It is generally recognized that the present classification of bacterial dysenteries as well as of the dysentery bacilli is in a somewhat unsatisfactory position. I venture therefore to bring forward again a classification I suggested some years ago, which so far has attracted very little attention. This classification to a great extent was followed by Chalmers and myself in the third edition of our Manual of Tropical Medicine. According to this classification bacterial dysenteries are separated into three groups: 1. Bacterial dysentery, sensu stricto (synonyms Shigadysentery, Shiga-Kruse dysentery), due to dysentery organisms which do not ferment lactose or mannitol and do not clot milk (Shiga-Kruse bacillus). 2. Paradysentery, due to organisms which do not ferment lactose, ferment mannitol (acid only), do not clot milk (Flexner, Hiss-Russell, etc.). 3. Metadysentery, due to organisms which, as is the case with the true dysentery bacilli, do not produce gas in any sugar, but either ferment lactose (acid only) and clot milk, or ferment lactose (acid only) without clotting milk, or clot milk without fermenting lactose (organisms of the genus Dysenteroides and Lankoides).

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Manual of Tropical Medicine. By Aldo Castellani, M.D. Florence, Director of the Clinique for Tropical Diseases, Ceylon; and Albert J. Chalmers, M.D.Vict. and Liverp., F.R.C.S.Eng., D.P.H.Camb.