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The Treatment of Mediterranean Fever by means of Vaccines, with Illustrative Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Fleet-Surgeon P. W. Bassett-Smith
Fleet-Surgeon P. W. Bassett-Smith
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Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar.
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For years we have been vainly striving to find some method of treatment capable of preventing or cutting short the relapses so constantly present in Mediterranean fever. Though certain drugs have for a time seemed successful, their beneficial effects are usually uncertain and transient, so that the treatment of the disease has come to be almost entirely symptomatic. Many germicides have been tried; among these “cyllin” has lately been said to shorten the course of the fever. In my hands this has not been the case. Burney Yeo's chlorine and quinine mixture has here occasionally produced very satisfactory results when given with a rising temperature, apparently cutting short a wave of pyrexia, which from experience we had expected to last ten days or more; but its action is very uncertain.

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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1907 , pp. 115 - 144
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1907

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