A manual of plague / by William Ernest Jennings ; with an introduction by G. Bainbridge.

  • Jennings, William Ernest.
Date:
1903
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Credit: A manual of plague / by William Ernest Jennings ; with an introduction by G. Bainbridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    A MANUAL OF PLAGUE CHAPTEK I INTRODUCTORY A DISEASE of the nature of plague, which manifests itself in such a variety of forms, does not easily lend itself to the enunciation of a definition which can at the same time be exhaustive and concise. To attempt anything, therefore, more than a general statement, including, briefly, its leading features, would lead to a description rather than a definition, which, as each characteristic will be fully treated of in its proper place, would be superfluous here. In such general terms it might be stated to be a specific contagious and infectious febrile disorder, characterized by extreme mental and physical de- pression, generally attended by heemorrhages in different parts, bubonic swellings in one or more of the glandular regions, and, occasionally, by involve-