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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II ENTERIC FEVER The causation and spread of enteric fever in various climates and under various conditions has probably been discussed by the medical profession in every civilized part of the world, and a voluminous literature now exists which comprises the views of those who are best qualified to throw light on a subject the elucidation of which has a most direct and immediate influence on the welfare of the human race. A detailed discussion of these views is at present uncalled for, and they therefore will only be mentioned in so far as they bear on the military aspect of the subject. Under ordinary conditions of home service the origin of enteric fever is generally to be found in circumstances which effect the community as a whole, and which, as far as the practical routine of everyday life is concerned, are matters of common knowledge, and may be summed up under the headings of water, milk, and defective drainage. The two former are fully-accepted channels for the spread of the disease by the conveyance of the germ on which it depends. The manner in which defective drainage acts is, on the other hand, still doubtful, and while the existence of this causative agent of enteric fever can scarcely be questioned in the face of accumulated evidence, it is by no means certain as to whether sewer emanations actually contain the essential cause of the disease, or whether they act as predisposing agents to the entrance of the germ. Certain experiments appear to show that the latter is likely to be the case. Rats, rabbits, and guinea-pigs were confined in a box which communicated directly with a drain. The animals soon began to lose health and became emaciated; they were then inoculated with a small amount of a slightly virulent typhoid culture, and control animals ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217516563 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217516564 |
| Weight | 1.12 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.77 In |
| List Price | $21.70 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 344 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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