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EREBRO-SPINAL fever is a disease which occurs sporadically, i.e., as occasional isolated cases, or in epidemic form. The first authenticated epidemic seems to have been in Geneva in 1805. In 1806 it appeared in the United States, and continued to prevail there for ten years, and again in 1861 toâ 1864. During this period, and indeed throughout the first half of last century, it was observed in different towns of France and of Italy, in Algeria, Spain, Denmark, etc. In 1854 and for seven years afterwards it raged in Sweden, destroying more than 4000 persons in that country. In 1863 it broke out in Germany and spread from north-eastern Prussia to the south German towns. In 1846 it appeared in many of the workhouses in Ireland, and in 1866-68 a very fatal type of it prevailed in Dublin, and to some extent in other parts of the country. The disease never seems to have established itself in London, or indeed in England, but during the last ten years epidemics of some severity have prevailed in Belfast, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, and during the past year a number of cases have occurred in different parts of the country, particularly in connection with military camps.
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H., R. Cerebro-Spinal Fever . Nature 95, 487 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095487a0
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