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AT a Chadwick Lecture on this subject delivered on February 20 at the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Dr. J. D. Rolleston discussed the various acute infectious diseases in relation to war in the following alphabetical order: cerebro-spinal fever, diphtheria, dysentery, enteric fever, infectious hepatitis, malaria, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, small-pox, streptococcal infections, typhus fever and war wounds. Chronic infections, particularly tuberculosis and syphilis, were not considered. Comparative novelties mentioned in the lecture included diphtheria of the skin, infective hepatitis, the striking decline in the incidence and mortality of enteric fever, and the introduction of new specific remedies, of which the most valuable were penicillin for war wounds, sulphaguanidine for dysentery and atebrin for malaria.
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War and Infectious Diseases. Nature 155, 423 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155423b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155423b0