CASES OF PLAGUE FOLLOWING ACCIDENTAL INOCULATION. GREEN, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), Surgeon-Captain, i.m.s., Off(j. Police Surgeon, Calcutta.
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officer made a post-mortem on a in Madras one hour after death on October 7th. He was assisted by a native, who pricked his finger in sewing up the body. The medical officer felt ill on October 9th, was very ill on October 10th, temperature being 103?, and continued so until the night of October lGth, when the temperature became normal and The native, who pricked his he convalesced. himself absented from work on October finger, 10th, and died on October 15th. The autopsy shewed that he had died of plague. Dr. Clemow has kindly furnished me with the following notes :? A hospital assistant made a post-mortem examination on March 14th, at 3 p.m., on the body of a patient who had died of pneumonic plague thirteen hours before, in the Parel Hospital, Bombay. During the examination he pricked one of the fingers of his left hand. On the evening of March 16th he felt ill. He was reported sick on March 18th, and had then high fever with enlargement of the left supratrochlea gland. On March 19th, there was a bubo in the left axilla, and he died on the morning of March 20th. A
medical
plague
case
By C. R. M.
\J
officer made a post-mortem on a in Madras one hour after death on October 7th. He was assisted by a native, who pricked his finger in sewing up the body. The medical officer felt ill on October 9th, was very ill on October 10th, temperature being 103?, and continued so until the night of October lGth, when the temperature became normal and The native, who pricked his he convalesced. himself absented from work on October finger, 10th, and died on October 15th. The autopsy shewed that he had died of plague. Dr. Clemow has kindly furnished me with the following notes :? A hospital assistant made a post-mortem examination on March 14th, at 3 p.m., on the body of a patient who had died of pneumonic plague thirteen hours before, in the Parel Hospital, Bombay. During the examination he pricked one of the fingers of his left hand. On the evening of March 16th he felt ill. He was reported sick on March 18th, and had then high fever with enlargement of the left supratrochlea gland. On March 19th, there was a bubo in the left axilla, and he died on the morning of March 20th. A
medical
plague
case
