UNCLASSIFIED FEVERS
OF TROPICS.
Dlt. Chombie, in opening the discussion on tne Unclassified Fevers of the Tropics at the annual
meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh, remarked that his object was to emphasise the fact that there are certain more or less well-defined clinical types of fever recognisable in hot climates which have
Nomenclature
of
sification is
follows
I.
as
His
Diseases.
provisional clas-
of doubtful causation,
Ephemeral fever. Common continued fever. 1. Febricula : variety Nakra
a.
or
Simple
2.
*3. 4.
Non-malarial remittent fever.
*5.
Malta fever.
6.
Double-continued fever (Manson).
*7.
fever. Acute febrile icterus. Yellow fever.
Relapsing
8.
*9. 10.
III.
:
fever. "Milk-Sickness." Urban continued fever. Enteric fever.
Aphthous
1.
11.
Beri-beri.
12.
Cerebro-spinal Typhus fever.
13.
pro-
Nasha fever.
continued fever. *3. Ardent fever. *c. Thermic fever, siriasis, heat apoplexy. *d. " Low fever." II. Specific fevers of known or unknown origin 2.
in the
:?
Non-specific fevers bably climatic : *b.
place
no
Malarial fevers
fever.
(
:
( Quotidian. 1.
-< Tertian.
Intermittent
'
2.
Remittent
Quartan. continued malarial
or
fever
(Lave ran). IV.
Fevers of *1.
compound origin : Typlio-malarial fever.
*2.
Kala-Azar.
*3.
Hiumoglobinuric
Those clinical asterisk
are
heading of
"
fever
which
types classed by
(1).
are
marked with
an
Dr. Croinbie under the
Unclassified Fevers of the
Tropics."
OF TROPICS.
Dlt. Chombie, in opening the discussion on tne Unclassified Fevers of the Tropics at the annual
meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh, remarked that his object was to emphasise the fact that there are certain more or less well-defined clinical types of fever recognisable in hot climates which have
Nomenclature
of
sification is
follows
I.
as
His
Diseases.
provisional clas-
of doubtful causation,
Ephemeral fever. Common continued fever. 1. Febricula : variety Nakra
a.
or
Simple
2.
*3. 4.
Non-malarial remittent fever.
*5.
Malta fever.
6.
Double-continued fever (Manson).
*7.
fever. Acute febrile icterus. Yellow fever.
Relapsing
8.
*9. 10.
III.
:
fever. "Milk-Sickness." Urban continued fever. Enteric fever.
Aphthous
1.
11.
Beri-beri.
12.
Cerebro-spinal Typhus fever.
13.
pro-
Nasha fever.
continued fever. *3. Ardent fever. *c. Thermic fever, siriasis, heat apoplexy. *d. " Low fever." II. Specific fevers of known or unknown origin 2.
in the
:?
Non-specific fevers bably climatic : *b.
place
no
Malarial fevers
fever.
(
:
( Quotidian. 1.
-< Tertian.
Intermittent
'
2.
Remittent
Quartan. continued malarial
or
fever
(Lave ran). IV.
Fevers of *1.
compound origin : Typlio-malarial fever.
*2.
Kala-Azar.
*3.
Hiumoglobinuric
Those clinical asterisk
are
heading of
"
fever
which
types classed by
(1).
are
marked with
an
Dr. Croinbie under the
Unclassified Fevers of the
Tropics."
