Endemic Typhus in Mysore

Hans Zinsser's book Rats, Lice and History has depicted impressively the important role typhus in the cultural evolution of the human race. The epidemic form of the disease has even changed the history of nations. ^ certain uniformity in the symptomatology has pen established in the louse-borne epidemic j;0rm as a contrast to the numerous endemic forms. The manifestation of the tsutsugamushi ;^ver of Japan, the Mexican tabardillo fever, he spotted fevers of different localities are Samples of such endemic varieties. In spite of the divergent manifestations of endemic typhus, four signs are more or less ^?nstant, though certainly not all of them are be found in every individual case: fever, rash, agglutinins to a proteus strain (Weil-