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THIS is a very lucid and terse description of the symptoms and treatment of malaria, based largely on experience of that malady among soldiers infected in Macedonia. The subject is treated after the method of many recent French writers, in that a sharp distinction is drawn between the symptoms of primary and secondary malaria. We doubt, however, the reality of the distinction, and if it exists, it practically is not of great import, for the fundamental treatment is always the same, viz. quinine. In one respect we consider the authors' mode of dealing with the subject is unsatisfactory: they discuss malaria as a whole. We believe, on the contrary, that the proper method is to determine first what species of parasite is present in the blood, and then to associate clinical observations with that species alone. That this is the sounder method is exemplified by the occurrence of comatose symptoms almost exclusively with the malignant tertian parasites, and other instances might be given.
Le Paludisme Macédonien.
Par P. Armand-Delille P. Abrami G. Paisseau Henri Lemaire. (Collection Horizon Précis de Médecine et de Chirurgie de Guerre.) Pp. viii + 109. (Paris: Masson et Cie, 1917.) Price 4 francs.
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Le Paludisme Macédonien. Nature 100, 243 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100243a0
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