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Plague
Plague is a disease that has been present for thousands of years and described since the earliest medical accounts. It occurs today worldwide, and may present in a variety of clinical forms. Bubonic disease, pneumonic plague, and septicemic plague are seen in addition to a number of other less common manifestations. As an agent of bioterrorism,Yersinia pestis could pose an extreme threat if rel...
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Plague is an endemic disease to the west of Iran and has frequently stricken this area over the last decades. In 1954, Pasteur Institute of Iran established a research station in the west of the country and since then has monitored the plague outbreaks as well as the disease status in rodents and carnivores by dispatching research teams to different villages and localities. We noticed that ther...
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venous injections of iodine in this disease has been recognized by previous workers, I used it as a routine measure, giving injections containing from 2 to 1? grs. In spite of these injections most patients showed severe constitutional disturbances within 48 hours of commencing treatment, with delirium and restlessness. Severe asthenia would set in about the third day of treatment, and the prog...
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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...
متن کاملThe plague
Albert Camus (1913-1960) was born in Algeria, which was then a French colonial possession. His father was killed in battle in World War I a year after Albert’s birth, leaving his family in poverty. Camus worked his way through the university of Algiers by doing odd jobs, but dropped out after a severe bout of tuberculosis. He then turned to journalism, writing for an anti-colonial newspaper in ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.090699