BUBONIC PLAGUE ("KAUMPULI") IN CENTRAL EAST AFRICA

Sulphadiazine in the Treatment of Bubonic Plague

The value of some of the sulphanilamide derivatives in the treatment of plague has now been well recognized. In a field trial conducted at Bettiah, Bihar, in 1940, it was found that both sulphathiazole and sulphapyridine reduced the case mortality in bubonic plague to a significant extent. These results were confirmed in subsequent trials carried out at Latur in 1940 and 1941. Sulphadiazine, an...

Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China

century (tenuously, since, as the author does not state, only the plan for this example is known and there is no evidence that the building was ever erected) and still in use in the thirteenth century for hotels-Dieu and monastic hospitals, mainly Benedictine. Though Karassava-Tsilingiri does not say so, his conclusions-if accepted-are of very great importance for the history of medical institu...

The Presence of Bubonic Plague in Calcutta

in broth. It follows then that, if this growth is seen, we are dealing with the microbe of plague and none other. As will be seen later on, this characteristic appearance was found by us, and verified by numerous independent observers, in three out of the four cases examined ; we are compelled, therefore, to state that these were undoubtedly cases of true bubonic plague. On the 2nd August a rep...

Further Cases of Bubonic Plague Contracted at Plague Necropsies

ed signs of suppuration on April 28th and four ounces of pus were let out by incision. "On May 2nd,symptoms of pneumonia appeared and he coughed up frothy blood. He died on May 3rd, fourteenth day from the commencement of the attack. Medical opinion was divided over this case, some holding that it was a case of ordinary septicaemia,and others that it was plague septicaemia. Taking into consider...

An Unusual Form of Bubonic Plague