A Case of Identical Delirium in Repeated Attacks of BlackWater Fever at Long Intervals

Amœbiasis and Blackwater Fever

were undertaken. In one area it was over 90 per cent, but since the introduction of these measures the spleen rate has been much reduced with a fall in the incidence of malaria and blackwater fever. Due to the war, difficulty in obtaining oil for spraying is being experienced, and the spleen rate is rising. During the past 12 years, I have seen 33 cases of blackwater fever in my practice in the...

A Glance at Blackwater Fever

No. 1.?In this case, the patient, a boy of 12, had been suffering from repeated attacks of malarial fever for about a year. Every time he was successfully treated with quinine. But the effect was quite temporary, and he began to suffer twice or thrice every month. Sometimes relapses occurred even during the period while he was under treatment with quinine, arsenic, iron, etc. The last time when...

Three Fatal Cases of Blackwater Fever *Rearranged by the Editor.

a class by themselves and in spite of every possible treatment ended fatally. This season cases are occurring which start with anuria and die of uraemia, in spite of intravenous alkaline saline. The kidneys appear to be blocked so completely that after saline not a drop of urine is secreted. Case 1.?Boka, Chinaman, male, aged 50, carpenter, Gopalpur Tea Estate, got blackwater fever on 16th July...

A Case of Blackwater Fever

Blackwater Fever in Children, Burundi

Blackwater fever is characterized by acute intravascular hemolysis with hemoglobinuria in patients with Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Its pathogenesis and management are still debated. Nine cases of this syndrome occurred in 2003 at Kiremba Hospital in Burundi in children receiving multiple quinine treatments.