This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...under all conditions. 7. All persons whose profession or duty involves contact with the sick should be immunized. 8. The general vaccination of an entire community is feasible and could be done without interfering with general sanitary improvements, and should be urged whenever the typhoid rate is high. By the use of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...under all conditions. 7. All persons whose profession or duty involves contact with the sick should be immunized. 8. The general vaccination of an entire community is feasible and could be done without interfering with general sanitary improvements, and should be urged whenever the typhoid rate is high. By the use of this prophylactic, typhoid fever has practically disappeared from the United States Army. Vaccines have also been used during an attack of typhoid, but the results, while satisfactory to some observers, cannot be said to be generally acceptable. Paratyphoid Fever.--There is a variety of enteric fever called paratyphoid fever. This is caused by the Bacillus paratyphosus, an organism closely allied to the true typhoid bacillus and only separated from it by its ability to ferment certain sugars and the quantity of acid it produces under artificial conditions. In paratyphoid fever, however, the blood will not clump (agglutinate) the true typhoid bacillus, but does have such an action upon the paratyphoid bacillus. In this form of fever the course is shorter, the attack is milder, and complications are much less frequent. There is usually no ulceration of Peyer's plaques and therefore hemorrhage from the bowel is of extreme rarity. It is "nevertheless an infectious disease, entirely comparable in its origin, course, transmission, and epidemic character to true typhoid fever, and the same precautions of disinfection must be observed. Paratyphoid infections are due to two closely related subvarieties; they occur at times in epidemics like typhoid; they are amenable to the same prophylactic measures. It is now the practice to give a single vaccine with all three organisms in it, typhoid and paratyphoid A and B bacilli; this protects against all th...
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