Note on the Ætiology of Malarial Fever

Note on Malarial Fever

By Surgeon-Major M. D. O'Connell, m.d., Army Medical Department. Ague and Remittent fever are usually classed together under the title of " paroxysmal" or malarial fever. For this classification, however, the reasons do not appear to be sound. With these exceptions, viz.% that they are found at times to exist side by side ; that in both there is increase of temperature; that occasionally one di...

The Ætiology of Blackwater Fever

A Record of Malarial Cases in the Bengal-Nagpur Railway Construction Hospital, Titlagarh, from July 1928 to August 1929, with Some Observations on Mosquito Findings and Conditions of Transmission

Note -?Total blood films examined over the period was 257. Of these 160 were found with malarial parasites giving a 62.5 per cent, positive result. The routine followed is, that all cases reporting with fever have a blood film taken. Those showing parasites are at once put on quinine or plasmoquine with quinine, and those negative to malarial parasites on an alkaline or diaphoretic mixture unti...

Malarial Fever with Aphasia

As malarial iever witn apna^ia is a condition spoken of in text*books, and but seldom seen in general practice, the notes of the following case may be of interest:? Jeer Bandhan, a Hindustani male, 20 years of age, was admitted into Hospital. Bassein, on 3rd March 1900, with a temperature of 102G, pulse 120, and respiration 38 per minute. He was unable to speak or give any account of himself. O...

Hæmoglobinuria in a Case of Malarial Fever

Slit,?Since my notes on the above case were in print I have received a letter from the patient informing me that on the second day of his fever?9th September?after a long bicycle ride he poured four or five buckets of cold water over himself while very hot. This may have supplied the exciting cause, though one would have expected hematuria rather than hemoglobinuria after such an act of folly. ...