Observations on the Remitting Fever

OBSERVATIONS Remitting Diabetes

W e describe a previously unreported clinical scenario of remitting diabetes in two young brothers who do not fit existing diagnostic classifications. They may represent a new genetic subgroup of diabetes. Case 1 presented at 3.6 years with poor linear growth, polyuria, and polydipsia. Diabetes was diagnosed based on a blood glucose value of 11.5 mmol/l and an elevated HbA1c of 7.0% (normal 3.8...

Observations on Burdwan Fever

to take measures of safety. He rejected the old embankment and caused a new one to be constructed far away from the river side to the east of several villages between Harala and Kashra, a distance of more than two miles in length, and which still goes by his name. The villages ti the west of this bund during each overflow were allowed to suffer their destiny. The heavy losses suffered by the pe...

Observations on Infantile Remittent Fever

HEN we reflect that no less than one half of the human race is cut off under ten years of age, it must be apparent that the diseases of childhood, affecting as they do, at once, the happiness of domestic privacy and the prosperity of the commonwealth, form a most interesting subject of inquiry to the political as well as the medical philosopher. It is to be lamented, however, that the attention...

Some Clinical Observations on Cerebrospinal Fever

Observations on the Fever Caused by Bacterial Pyrogens

The relationship between the fever of acute infection and that following injection of bacterial pyrogen was studied by administering pyrogens to animals convalescent from acute infections. Rabbits surviving dermal pneumococcal infections or peritonitis due to Escherichia coli were given intravenous injections of typhoid or E. coli vaccine. They showed no evidence of tolerance to the fever-promo...