Epidemic Intermittent Catarrh

Of the Epidemic Catarrh of the Year 1788

N fome of the earliefh inftances I had occafion to fee of this epidemic in London, the patients dated their complaints from the latter end of June ; but the difeafe could hardly be faid to occur with much frequency before the fecond week of July; from which period, till about the fourth week cf that month, feemecL to be the fpace of time in which it was moft prevalent. In the beginning of Auguf...

Of the Epidemic Catarrh of the Year 1788

Infectious Catarrh of Mice

A natural outbreak of an infectious catarrh in a colony of Swiss mice is reported. The disease was generally characterized by a peculiar chattering sound during life and by a rhinitis, an otitis media, and a pneumonia at autopsy. The pneumonia was slowly progressive and terminated fatally in a high percentage of cases. The mortality in a group of 75 naturally infected mice was 95 per cent over ...

Senile Uterine Catarrh

Epidemic Intermittent Fever in the Mauritius

fever had been registered in the Military Hospitals between the years 1823 and 1858. In the Civil Hospital for four years prior to 1866, (including all classes of the community,) only 85 cases of paludal fever had occurred j whereas in the same hospitals during the eighteen months ending June 1867, no less than 2,576 patients were under treatment suffering from intermittent fever ; and within t...