On the Cause, Malignancy, and Persistence of Yellow Fever Aboard Ship
نویسنده
چکیده
gree liable to the production of yellow fever poison, is an equally certain truth ; but this circumstance probably arises from some inappreciable difference in the nature of the resultant poison from different organic matter decomposing under different meteorological conditions in the aggregate, though alike, it may be, in high temperature. At least, there appears to be a difference great enough to characterise the
منابع مشابه
A surgeon's India. Diaries of Lt. Col. Alexander Cameron, O.B.E., Indian Medical Service
concluded "that if yellow fever was communicable at all by personal contagion it was so only in an extremely feeble degree". By now, importation by ship was abundantly clearits further elucidation would await the discovery ofmosquito transmission. Buchanan's sanitary measures on the ship and cargo were similar to those of Melier but, in Britain, dependent on local rather than central government...
متن کاملThe English plant names in The Grete Herball (1526). A contribution to the historical study of English plant-name usage
concluded "that if yellow fever was communicable at all by personal contagion it was so only in an extremely feeble degree". By now, importation by ship was abundantly clearits further elucidation would await the discovery ofmosquito transmission. Buchanan's sanitary measures on the ship and cargo were similar to those of Melier but, in Britain, dependent on local rather than central government...
متن کاملYellow Fever in Europe
Known today as an exclusively tropical disease, yellow fever appeared in Europe in several outbreaks during the first half of the nineteenth century. Between 1800 and 1828, several ports in the south of Spain were affected. Each time, several thousands of deaths were registered. We always possess several historical detailed reports containing a lot of clinical and epidemiological data. The feat...
متن کاملPerceived Training Needs of Maritime Doctors and General Practitioners
Introduction: Medical practitioners provide pre-employment examinations and periodic health examinations to seafarers, fishermen, offshore employees, and maritime students to ensure that they are fit for work. So far, very little is known about doctors’ perceptions of their professional training needs and expectations. The objective of this study was to gain insight on (a</...
متن کاملHenry Rose Carter
It shows him in his Public Health Service uniform sometime after 1915, when he attained the rank of Assistant Surgeon General. Carter was a quarantine officer and a field epidemiologist, best known for his discovery in 1898 of the extrinsic incubation period of yellow fever. His discovery led directly to the historic finding by Reed, Carroll, Agra-monte, and Lazear in 1900 that mosquitoes are t...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017