THE ANTISEPTIC TREATMENT OF TYPHOID FEVER.

The Treatment of Typhoid Fever

Streptomycin in the treatment of typhoid and para-typhoid fever.

quer the disease, because of its wide bacillary spectrum and, especially of the powerful activity on the growth of Eberthella typhosa in vitro. The results of the most reliable record by Keefer and others on 51 cases of typhoid fever were however disappointing, in which cases were treated with a large does of streptomycin. Since then, workers in this field seem to have abandoned to repeat simil...

The Cold-Bath Treatment of Typhoid Fever

Dr. Hark need make no apology to the profession for presenting them in this handsome volume with the results of his long experience in the cold-bath treatment of typhoid fever, with which his name, as well as that of Brand, are always associated. In the English language there existed no single work dealing with this method, and practitioners anxious to try it have had to search periodical liter...

Aureomycin in the Treatment of Typhoid Fever

The Cold-Bath Treatment of Typhoid Fever

It seems remarkable that the medical profession of this country should be charged with inertia, because the cold-bath treatment which has been in vogue for some thirty years should not be universally adopted. It is true, as Dr. Hare remarks, that the difficulties in the systematic adoption of the method have been greatly exaggerated ; the plan of procedure which he describes (page 18) makes the...