Buboes are characteristic, it is true, of the plague, but it should be remembered that outbreaks of the pneumonic form, with little or no glandular enlargement are not uncommon.
The increased mortality was undoubtedly due to unsuspected plague cases of either the pneumonic or the septicemic type.
Pneumonia has preempted its {351} place in the statistics of mortality, but this is to a considerable extent because tuberculosis at the end masquerades as an acute pneumonic exacerbation.
Thus we have bubonic, septicaemic and pneumonic types.
It must be remembered that septicaemic, bubonic and pneumonic plague are all manifestations of systemic infection with B.
Under these conditions the pneumonic patient sprays plague bacilli into the air while coughing and droplet infection follows.
The necropsy and animal inoculations showed that he had died of plague and probably of the pneumonic variety.
A word concerning pneumonic plague may be permissible.
The occurrence of secondary pneumonia in bubonic or septicaemic plague is rather common and it is likely that such secondary plague pneumonias are the starting points of epidemics of pneumonic plague, i.
Strong of the Bureau of Science showed that death was due topneumonic plague.
A patient, while delirious with the pneumonic form of the plague, expectorated into the face of an English nurse caring for him.
That the pneumonic form of the plague results from inhalation of the bacillus can not be doubted.
The sputum of patients suffering from the pneumonic form of the disease is filled with the bacilli.
It occurs in several forms, of which the bubonic and the pneumonic are the most common.
The pneumonic type forms a very small percentage of the human cases and even with it, the evidence indicates that the original infection is derived from a rodent through the intermediary of the insect.
They found that during coughing, in pneumonic plague cases, even when sputum visible to the naked eye is not expelled, plague bacilli in large numbers may become widely disseminated into the surrounding air.
Still more important is the proof that in pneumonic plague the patient is directly infective and that the disease is spread from man to man without any intermediary.
Some cases were fatal in a few days, either from the intensity of the fever or from pneumonic complication.
At first it was like the ordinary contagious fever of this country, "a disease familiar to common observation"; but afterwards it showed choleraic and pneumonic complications.
The more fatal form is known as pneumonic plague, and in this the lungs are the seat of the disease.
The disease extends from the rat to man chiefly by means of the fleas which contain the bacilli, and in cases of pneumonicplague from man to man by means of sputum infection.
In the pneumonic and bronchial cases the treatment has been of the simple and sustaining kind.
The same picture was presented as in a slide from the lungs of a broncho-pneumonic child.
It was an extremely virulent type of pneumonic typhoid.
The sister told me he had come down with a splendid fighting record, and was one of the worst cases of pneumonic typhoid in the ward.
This suggestion led to an investigation of the reports of the pneumonic plague in China and there is sufficient likeness of that epidemic to the present one prevailing in our cities and army camps to warrant a consideration of it.
In the latter part of 1910 the pneumonic plague first appeared in Harbin a town in Manchuria under Chinese control.
In pneumonic cases the bacillus may be found in the sputum of the patient.
The modern view is that aerial infection may be put aside as almost impossible except in pneumonic cases; but that plague may be transmitted by any method which inoculates the blood with Bacillus pestis.
There may be a sensation of suffocation, the pneumonic sputa, the friction sound of pleurisy, or the signs of pleuritic effusion; and the existence of these symptoms or signs would naturally aid in the diagnosis of metastatic abscesses.
Granular meningitis or general miliary tuberculosis also frequently follows in the wake of measles, connected in many cases with foci of caseous degeneration in the involved lymphatic glands or unabsorbed pneumonic exudation.
A section of the former presents the same appearance as is observed in the lungs of pneumonic patients.
Some well-recognized peculiarities of the so-called pneumonias of influenza give weight to the view that the consolidations are not, in the beginning, pneumonic at all.
Where, however, the dulness on percussion is accompanied by high fever, and the long-drawn inspiration is replaced by rapid respiratory movements, the diagnosis of pneumonic complication is justified.
Still, they often present congestion or oedema, and subpleural ecchymoses, hemorrhagic infarctions, and pneumonic consolidation are not rare.
In the series of cases observed by him pneumonic consolidation was mostly absent, and there was very little evidence of collapse, but the lungs were exceedingly oedematous.
The rarity of the air at that elevation increased my pneumonic difficulty, and rendered my breath very short.
The cause of the pneumonic plague is so little known that it may be interesting to mention it here.
We all know about his wonderful work in the northern part of China, when the pneumonic plague[18] was raging there a few years ago, and still later his heroism among the typhus-stricken soldiers of Serbia.
More recently salvarsan is being highly recommended for the treatment of the pneumonic form of influenza, and by many investigators it is considered as a specific for this affection.
There are no recoveries from pneumonic plague--that most terrible contagious disease so well-known in Eastern Siberia and Japan.
That tube contained a cultivation of pneumonic plague," he exclaimed huskily, "one of the deadliest microbes known.
Pneumonic plague had appeared in Manchuria, and was stalking through the land.
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