Nail Puncture Wounds of the Foot: Results in 100 Cases
Year: 1917
Type: article
Abstract: year of age, it is evident that, at least, there were comparatively very few.It is, of course, undeniable, from the nature of the infection, that contact eases may develop, anel the percentage of the same may he indi- cated by the incidence of the disease among the exclusively breast fed exposed to other cases, since milk infection, except in the case of an infected mother, would be excluded.Further- more, if the organism causing distemper (often with paralytic symptoms) among the domestic animals, coincidontly with outbreaks of human poliomyelitis, so frequently mentioned in the literature, be actually identical with its cer- tainly near relative, that causing infantile par- alysis, then the per cent, of cemtact infection from animals to man will approximate the rate from man to man.However, the great mass of the evidence in the literature indicates that direct human to human transmission is of small importance.If may he, in the development of the disease in even the most susceptible child, that massive doses of the organism arc necessary, as, for in- stance, in large quantities of milk, either sur- charged with the germs, or in which great mul- tiplication of the organism occurs after inges- tion.*The paresis of the intestines common at the onset of the malady, helps 1 his theory, since the longer the' infected material lay in the in- testines the greater the number of germs that would gain access to the system.In connection with the temperature at which I founel the organism grew well, note the tem- perature range in New York City during the recent epidemic, anel how the case incidence rose anel fell as the mean of 70°was passed and re- passed. Month Mean TempératureCases
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
Author: W. Irving Clark
Language: English
Topic: Nail Diseases and Treatments
Subfield: Dermatology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2332674299