Mediterranean, Malta, or Undulant Fever

The Occurrence of Mediterranean or Malta Fever in Bombay

came to be applied to the diagnosis of this disease, Bruce and others had long surmised that the geographical distribution of Mediterranean fever was much wider than is indicated by its name. Cases which clinically resembled Malta fever have been for long described by observers in America under such names as typho-malarial fever, and malarial continued fever. And in India anomalous forms of con...

Undulant Fever

During the last four years a considerable number of case reports of undulant fever in the United States, apparently caused by infection with B. abortus, have appeared. Kern' has recently reviewed the literature of the subject and reported two additional cases, the first to be recognized in Pennsylvania. He especially calls attention to the fact that since the first proven case in this country w...

Sulphonamides in Undulant Fever

Undulant fever in children.

Since the discovery of the part played by the brucella abortus organisms in the production of undulant fever in man, increasing numbers of cases have been reported. In this country a series of three hundred cases has been recorded by Dalrymple Champneys (1936). This series agrees with all others published in that, first, it shows a great preponderance of cases amongst males-out of two hundred a...

Malta Fever in Bundelkhand

our present knowledge ot the aetiology a reason for the selection b}7 this disease sometimes known as Rock fever of such unfertile spots may be that in such places goat's milk would seem to be more drunk proportionately by the population than cow's milk. Among the barren rocks of Jhansi, where the cases in question have occurred, the hardier and more active goats can pick up a better living fro...