Do you think I wanted to give my strength nursing those fellows, and sitting in those beastly smelling wards, drinking in entericpoison and all the rest?
The place was low, too, and damp, and in no possible sense of the word a fit situation for a hospital for men down with enteric or with gunshot wounds.
Nevertheless at that moment there were nine hundred patients down with enteric at Intombi.
How he contracted enteric fever," says Mr Maud, "I cannot tell.
Enteric was rife there; but could a man, officer or private, who had been out for twelve hours on foraging or convoy duty, sit down and boil his water and then wait for a drink until it cooled?
But behind the scene enteric fever and dysentery flourished, and languishing in Intombi camp, two miles out, were pathetic remnants of the hale and hearty regiments who had marched to the front in October.
Enteric fever had not then been differentiated from typhus, the mode of its spread was unknown, and probably defective sanitation had led to poisoning of the well, as it has done and still is doing in many a British town and village.
Jaccoud in France and Hart in England have shown that enteric fever (typhoid) is not infrequently spread by milk.
Secondly, Pettenkofer traced a definite relationship between the rise and fall of the ground water with pollution of the soil and enteric (typhoid) fever.
Bacillus typhosus itself, it is said, has been isolated from some ice-cream which was held responsible for an outbreak of enteric fever.
Since then other organisms have been held responsible for the causation of enteric (or typhoid) fever.
The first development of the entericcavity has already been described.
The primitive enteric cavity becomes converted into the branchial sack, and from its dorsal and posterior corner the oesophagus, stomach and intestine grow out as in the normal forms.
The latter give rise to a closed enteric sack, and probably also to a mass of cells situated on the ventral side, which appear to be mesoblastic.
The epiblast is constituted of a single layer of cells which completely envelopes the enteric sack and the mesoblast.
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Or is it one of those misfortunes, like that enteric outbreak which swept away so many British soldiers, which is beyond our present sanitary science and can only be endured with sad resignation?
Had the deaths come from some filth-disease, such as typhus fever, or even from enteric or diphtheria, the sanitation of the camps might be held responsible.
In addition to this, enteric fever had begun to set in, and the hospital tents were crowded.
Sickness, too, began to break out, and several cases of entericfever were reported.
In this short campaign the battalion lost no less than sixty-four of their number (including those who died in Cairo soon after their return, principally from enteric fever).
The British troops, too, were beginning to suffer from the heat, inferior food, and inadequate shelter, and dysentery and enteric fever began to break out.
It will be seen that the enteric tube thus becomes included within the wider and more capacious coelom cavity.
When the gall-bladder is absent a single large hepato-enteric duct is found, or instead a number of smaller ducts which enter the intestine successively.
The mesodermal elements thus added to the enteric entodermal tube consist of connective tissue and muscular fibers.
The liver, like the pancreas, is developed from the duodenum as an outgrowth from the hypoblast lining the enteric tube.
When the anal aperture is formed in a manner to be presently detailed, the opening is situated cephalad of the portion connected with the nerve-tube by the neuro-enteric canal.
Consequently a function which in these lower vertebrates is assigned to the midgut becomes transferred in the higher forms to a specialized segment of the foregut, situated cephalad of the hepato-enteric duct.
After closure of the neuro-enteric canal and obliteration of the post-anal gut the alimentary tube ends, during a short period, both cephalad and caudad in a blind pouch.
The post-anal gut and the neuro-enteric canal are better developed in the embryos of the lower than in those of the higher vertebrates.
The vesicular mucous surface is thus derived from the enteric hypoblast in the same way as the epithelial lining of the bile-ducts and capillaries.
The distal and ventral outgrowth is separated from the preceding and is from the beginning closely connected with the similar embryonic outgrowth from the enteric tube which is to form the liver.
This mesothelial tissue, differentiated as a layer of flattened cells, lines the interior of the body cavity and covers the superficial aspect of the enteric tube.
Dysentery and enteric are as bad as ever, but do not increase in proportion to the length of siege.
Nothing can be bought to drink, except lemonade and soda-water, made with enteric germs.
The sick still average thirty a day, and there were 320 cases of enteric at Intombi Camp last night.
Major Donegan sent out thirty-six cases of enteric to Intombi Camp from the divisional troops' hospital alone.
The letters I have lately seen from officers recovering from wounds or dysentery or enteric are simply heart-rending in their appeals.
In December, when the cases of enteric fever and dysentery began to be very numerous, it was determined to take possession of the milch cows, and to see that the milk was used for the sick alone.
Enteric is not quite so bad as it was, but dysentery increases.
The patient was not sure that this had not been present ever since he recovered from the enteric fever, but it was sufficiently marked to give rise to the suspicion of the development of disseminated sclerosis.
The patient acquired enteric fever at Wynberg and when convalescent was sent to Netley, whence he returned home.
Two days later the temperature rose to 104°, and enteric fever was diagnosed, no local signs pointing to the injury existing.
After he had been in camp four days, his leg gave way, and he returned to hospital, where he contracted enteric fever.
At last he was himself stricken down by enteric fever.
Out of six sisters in his hospital, which seemed a very good one, four had enteric at the time, and one had died of it.
Inoculation forenteric began to-day with a dozen fellows.
Dennis Joined December 27th, and died of enteric at Aliwal North.
Almond looks over my shoulder the while, and I make a score with my finger-nail under the words "enteric fever.
The irritation produced by the absorption of this permeating dust into the system militates to some extent against the rapid recovery of men who suffer from diseases like dysentery or enteric fever.
The colicky pains preceding and accompanying the stools are a more marked feature of intestinal catarrh; they are absent in enteric fever or have a feeble intensity.
It is sometimes observed in the early stage of enteric fever.
The prostration is proportioned to the diarrhoea, and is by no means as {686} great as at the same period in enteric fever.
The eruptive fevers are accompanied more or less by gastro-enteric catarrh.
Duguet and Damaschino have recently encountered cases associated with a special ulceration of one of the palatine folds; the former in enteric fever, the latter in a primitive case.
Superficial deuteropathic glossitis usually occurs in connection with gastric and gastro-enteric affections.
In other words, in young children intestinal catarrh by its severity and enteric fever by its benignity more nearly approach each other than in adults; in many instances the diagnosis must be undecided until late in the attack.
Malarious fevers, from their congestive tendency, give rise to the more acute forms of gastro-enteric inflammation.
If fever is continued beyond ten days, and is accompanied by progressive anaemia and emaciation and debility, the attack is enteric fever if all local causes of fever can be excluded.
Moreover, in gastro-enteric inflammations pain is more frequently felt in parts sympathetically affected than in the stomach itself.
It really seemed hard to succumb to enteric after such a miraculous escape from the enemies' murderous fire.
In this little city of the sick the medical men had at one time a constant average of 1800 sufferers on their hands; mostly cases of enteric which, as truly as shot and shell, shows no respect of persons.
Enteric fever and cholera bear a close resemblance to each other in their mode of spread, and they are both recognised in this country as mainly, if not entirely, water-borne diseases.
Thorne Thorne goes on to say: 'Incidentally it transpired during the course of this inquiry that the town of Malton had an altogether exceptional history in so far as enteric fever and diarrhœa in fatal form are concerned.
Nevertheless, there have been very few outbreaks of enteric fever in which the fact that cesspools, sewers, or underground middens have been in direct communication with the sources of water has not been detected.
Shortly after the summer of 1871 set in, I, in common with many others, went down with enteric fever.
But I am convinced that it was neither more nor less than ordinary enteric the inevitable concomitant of the neglect, on the part of a crowded community, of ordinary sanitary precautions.
