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acid acute affected ague anæmia ankylostomiasis appearance attacks bacillus bacterium become beriberi bilious blood corpuscles bowel cachexia cause cells cent character cholera chronic climates clinical colour comma congestion countries crescent cultures death diagnosis diarrhoea disease districts doses drug dysentery elephantiasis embryo endemic enlarged epidemic eruption especially examination fact fatal favourable filaria flagella flagellated flagellated body frequently germ give rise glands grains hæmoglobin hæmoglobinuric fever hæmorrhages hepatic India infection inoculated instances intestinal later leprosy lesions less liver abscess lymphatic malaria parasite malarial fever microscope mortality mosquito mucous membrane muscles natives observed occasionally occur ordinary organs pain parasite pathological patient peculiar perhaps pigment plague plasmodia plasmodium present probably quartan quinine rapidly rarely remittent rigor scrotum seen skin sometimes spleen sporulating stage stained stools surface symptoms temperature tertian tion tissues toxin treatment tropical typhoid ulcer urine usually vomiting worm yaws yellow fever
Popular passages
Page 582 - Further, ankylostomiasis is an important disease from the standpoint of the employer of native labour. The invaliding and inefficiency which it causes among coolies, not to mention the deaths, are often financially a serious matter to the planter and the mine-owner. To them any wisely directed expense or trouble undertaken for the treatment and control of this helminthiasis will be abundantly repaid by the increased efficiency of the labourer.
Page 308 - For an account of these regulations the reader is referred to the Annual Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India for 1895, Appendix, p.
Page 579 - The male and female ankylostomcs — present generally in the proportion of one of the former to three...
Page 165 - At the end of the third and the beginning of the second century Palestine was a shuttlecock tossed between the Ptolemies and the Seleucids; but in the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes (c.
Page 349 - sprue" is understood a peculiar and very dangerous form of chronic catarrhal inflammation of the whole or part of the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal, generally associated with...
Page 384 - In a few cases no dysenteric history i-an be elicited : it is seldom, however, as has already been insisted on, that careful inquiry fails to bring out some story of previous bowel disturbance more or less urgent. In a few instances liver, abscess of tropical origin does not declare itself until the patient has been several years resident in a temperate climate and quite outside the endemic area. The incidence of the symptoms is equally variable. Some cases commence with marked sthenic fever, much...