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Scientific Memoirs by Officers of the Medical and Sanitary Departments of the Government of India. Black Water Fever

1909

A new phase in the study of the disease was introduced by the rsearches of several physicians in Greece (5) and of Tomaselli (6) in Sicily who recorded cases of hamoglobinuria closely resembling the hwmoglobinuric"2 fever described by the French and Americans from the tropics. [...] Such a view of the origin of the disease is therefore at present not supported by any facts ; and it is even made somewhat improbable by a study of all that is known.of the condition notably the amount of positive evidence pointing to a malarial crigin and the difficulty of fitting in a special parasite view with what we know of the action of quinine in this disease. [...] Panse's cases are exceedingly convincing in this respect ; studying patients in Europe who suffered from relapses after return from Black-water Fever districts he frequently saw the onset of Black-water Fever in the course of the malarial attack for which the patient had been admitted and with the progress of the case noted the more or less rapid disappearance of the malarial parasites. [...] Certain French workers have suggested as an explanation of the phenomena observed in Black-water Fever the occurence of what they termed demineralisation of the plasma " a condition which they assume a reduction in the amount of salts normally found in solution in the plasma the resulting alterations in osmotic conditions giving rise to destruction of the red corpuscles. [...] In the main his theory regarding Black-water Fever is in agreement with that of the French observers previously alluded to the process of destruction being supposed to be the result of the " demineralisation of the plasma." But up to the present no observer has given sufficient data to enable an opinion to be formed as to the part played if any by osmotic variations in the production of Black-
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Pages
237
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145609
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii S. R. Christophers, C. A. Bentley view
Frontmatter
1-ii S. R. Christophers, C. A. Bentley view
Part I. Introductory
1-20 S. R. Christophers, C. A. Bentley view
Part II. Black-water Fever malarial in origin
21-66 S. R. Christophers, C. A. Bentley view
Part III. Black-Water Fever due to the Action of a Special Hæmolysin
67-138 S. R. Christophers, C. A. Bentley view
Part IV. Nature of the Hæmolysin in Black-water Fever
139-176 S. R. Christophers, C. A. Bentley view
Part V. Prophylaxis and Treatment of Black-Water Fever
177-178 S. R. Christophers, C. A. Bentley view
Part VI. Appendix
179-225 S. R. Christophers, C. A. Bentley view
References
226-229 S. R. Christophers, C. A. Bentley view
Backmatter
i-i S. R. Christophers, C. A. Bentley view

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