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The Detection of a Dysentery Carrier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

H. S. Gettings
Affiliation:
West Riding Asylum, Wakefield
Ethel Waldron
Affiliation:
West Riding Asylum, Wakefield

Extract

Last year a paper was given by one of us on the history of dysentery at Wakefield Asylum since its opening in 1818(a), and it was shown that all the evidence pointed to carriers and chronic cases as being responsible for its presence, persistence, and perpetuation there. After an epidemic period they kept the infection alive, and gave rise to the sporadic cases which always occurred in the inter-epidemic times.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1914 

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References

(1) Read at the Annual Meeting, Norwich, July 15th, 1914. Google Scholar

(2) Gettings “Dysentery Past and Present,” Journal of Mental Science, October, 1913. Google Scholar

(3) The passage from Sydenham is as follows: “It sometimes happens, though very seldom, that a dysentery ill treated at the beginning afflicts a particular person for several years … whilst the patient at the same time continues pretty capable of following his business. I met with an instance of this lately in a woman who was perpetually affected with this disease during the three last years of this constitution.” Hippocrates, too, points out how dysentery and diarrhoea merge into one another in an epidemic. Google Scholar

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