Contributions to the experimental pathology of spirillum fever / by H. Vandyke Carter ; (communicated by James Andrew).

  • Carter, H. V. (Henry Vandyke), 1831-1897.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Contributions to the experimental pathology of spirillum fever / by H. Vandyke Carter ; (communicated by James Andrew). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    « recurrent typlius ” have anything of a cumulative character, or together be comparable with the longer sole attack of ordinary typhus, it might be remembered that the infective powers of the latter fever are greatest at, if not limited to, its terminal stage; nor is the instance a singular one of a contagium slowly gathering in force. Rebound of Temperature or Secondary Fever. This is the commoner sort of “ relapse ” met with, and the phenomenon is a striking one. After mild specific at- tacks it assumes the form of a smart but brief reaction, and is promptly recovered from ; after the severer attacks it is commonly contemporary with local inflammation (see the note on autopsies), and may lead to death. The blood is always free from spirillar contamination here, as in the human subject. Rebounds set in either im- mediately after the crisis or in the course of a few hours, the milder lasting six hours, the complicated from one and a half to three and a half days, or as long as the prior specific fever. According to their duration, the pyrexia is wholly paroxysmal, or it is sustained and of remittent type, with a tendency to become continued; the onset is prompt and so is the final decline. The temperature attained equals or more commonly exceeds by about 1° Fahr. that of the specific attack, and the highest recorded in my series, viz. 107-2° occurred at the beginning of secondary fever (see the chart of Experiment No. 15); all the maxima were over 106°; the remissions varied from 1° to At the decline, body-heat did not descend below normal limits, except in the three fatal cases, when it i probably sank till death. Secondary fever followed all the severer specific attacks seen throughout, and of four instances only one survived after serious illness j its occurrence after milder attacks