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I HAVE no doubt that the plague expert, who has seen epidemic plague in the East, will think it unnecessary on the part of a bacteriologist to ask, What is plague? for is not plague, as it occurs in China, India, at the Cape, and other parts weekly, nay, daily, by the score of cases, quite readily diagnosed by its clinical features and by its pathology? No one can have any doubt about this being so; that is to say, when plague appears in a locality in epidemic form, the diagnosis of any new case does not offer much difficulty; nor would there be experienced much difficulty in diagnosis by etiological, clinical, pathological and bacteriological methods of a case, or of cases, occurring in a ship coming from a plague-infected port: as, for instance, the cases that occurred in connection with a vessel which arrived about the middle of January in the port of Hull—cases which belonged to the pneumonic type, and which from the outset were, or ought to have been, at once diagnosed as such.
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The Diagnosis of Plague 1 . Nature 64, 91 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064091a0
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