Twentieth Century Practice
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ISBN13: 9780217412445
Paperback|9780217412445
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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: counts come from Scotland as far back as 1661 (Sibbald vide Hirsch), 1716 in Berlin, 1717 in Florence, 1740 in Denmark. It is impossible to say when it first appeared in Asia and Africa. It was first observed in 1735 in North America (in the New England States), in 1829-31 in South America, in 1847-48 in Australia. Geographical Distribution. Scarlet fever occurs most commonly in Germany, France, the Netherlands, England, Scandinavia, Prussia, the United States of America, and Canada. It is found in the North (Iceland) as well as in the South (Italy, Turkey, Greece). It is rare in Asia and Africa, especially in Egypt, Abyssinia, Tunis, Senegambia. Exceptions to this rule in Asia are found on the coast of Asia Minor, where the disease is very malignant. In Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Arabia the disease occurs only sporadically; in India only imported cases are observed and, it is said, the disease never occurs in epidemic form. Many of the observers unite in the statement that when a case is reported occurring away from the coast or from direct European contact, errors of diagnosis have been made. In China the disease does occur, but very rarely, and in Japan it is unknown. In Australia the disease seems to have developed as it does in all civilized countries, sometimes mildly, at other times with greater severity. In America the disease is found in all parts as far north as Greenland and as far south as Pern. Within this limit there are portions that are more or less free from the disease. In the United States scarlatina is rare in the Southern States; indeed, it is very common to find the inhabitants of the Southern States very much more alarmed over a single case of scarlatina than over an epidemic of yellow fever. In Southern California epidemics are practically ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217412445 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217412440 |
| Weight | 1.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.27 In |
| List Price | $31.73 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 568 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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