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Title: Handbook of medical treatment
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Da Costa, John C., 1871-1920
Subjects: Therapeutics
Publisher: Philadelphia : Davis
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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study and treatment of the disease.Those who remain negative, both clinically and microscopic-ally, for a continuous period of two years should be releasedwith the understanding that they will report at monthly orquarterly intervals to their respective health officers forexamination. The conclusion is submitted that whatever maybe the views of well-informed persons with regard to the com-municability of leprosy, and however widely medical men maydiffer upon this question, yet the incontrovertible fact remainsthat every leper is a source of danger to others, and at leastone center of infection. So long as the exact mode of trans-mission is not known, it is apparent that an effort to controlthe disease without eliminating the leper as a center of infec-tion will be doomed to failure. Prophylactic medicine shouldnot be permitted to be turned by a few sentimentalists fromits march to a goal which offers the prospect of the eradica-tion of this plague from the earth, and the saving of many
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Fig. 4.—Case of macularand nodular leprosy withmarked infiltration of the face,before treatment with chaul-moosra oil mixture. Fig. 5.—Same case as above,after hypodermic treatmentwith a chaulmoogra oil mix-ture. MALARIAL FEVER. 205 innocent victims annually from contracting this most loath-some disease. MALARIAL FEVER. Of the numerous synonyms for the malarial fevers the fol-lowing are current: Ague, Chills and Fever, Marsh Fever,Remittent Fever, Intermittent Fever, Chagres Fever, Palud-ism, Paludismo (Spanish), Palustre (French), Coast Fever,and Climatic Fever. Malaria is a term used to designate a group of specificfevers caused by protozoan parasites belonging to the classSporozoa. The definitive host is the mosquito, and the inter-mediate host is man, and possibly other vertebrates. Thereare three distinct types of malarial fever. The first is causedby the Plasmodium malaricc, the second by the Plasmodiumvivax, and the third by the Laverania malaricc. Malaria is a disease asso

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