Blackwater Fever, Notes on

Notes on a Case of Blackwater Fever

The following are notes of a case of Blackwater fever, occurring in this country three weeks after arrival from West Africa :? The patient had been, for the greater portion of the last nine years, engaged in mining operations in Ashanti, during which time he repeatedly suffered from malarial fever of the daily type. He had been very careless in adopting the usual antimalarial precautions, viz.,...

The Parasitology of Malaria in the Darjeeling Terai

IC. L. CHOWDHURY, m.b. (From the Section of Medical Entomology, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta.) During 1929 a survey party from tins institution was deputed to collect data relating to the incidence of blackwater fever and malaria in the tea gardens of the Darjeeling Terai, and the following notes are a report on the malarial parasites of the region. Thin films only were prepared from c...

Vitex Peduncularis in the Treatment of Blackwater Fever

Sir,?I read with interest Dr. Measham's article on ' Vitex peduncularis in the Treatment of Blackwater Fever' appearing in the January 1940 issue of the Indian Medical Gazette. Indeed, there exists a common belief amongst the tea planters that Vitex "peduncularis is a cure for blackwater fever, and it is for this reason that the plant is being cultivated in numerous tea estates and forest nurse...

A Case of Blackwater Fever

Amœbiasis and Blackwater Fever

were undertaken. In one area it was over 90 per cent, but since the introduction of these measures the spleen rate has been much reduced with a fall in the incidence of malaria and blackwater fever. Due to the war, difficulty in obtaining oil for spraying is being experienced, and the spleen rate is rising. During the past 12 years, I have seen 33 cases of blackwater fever in my practice in the...