The Diagnosis of Oriental or Bubonic Plague 1An address read before the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, March 12th, 1902.
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acute enlargement of one or the other set of lymph glands, occurring in a person who directly or indirectly has been in some relation to an infected locality, are not sufficient evidence to make the diagnosis of bubonic or Oriental plague. I am, of course, assuming that other causes?e.g. venereal, Hodgkins's disease?are excluded. Real plague is caused by a well-defined species of bacillus?bacillus pestis, which I shall presently have occasion to illustrate fully in its morphological,, cultural, and experimental characters. It is admitted that however similar to plague the clinical and pathological features of a given case are, if it does not yield, on competent bacterioscopic analysis, the bacillus pestis, the case cannot be diagnosed as true plague. Owing to the existence of plague in India, the Cape, Egypt, Arabia, Asia Minor, South America, and other places, it is, of
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