Meningococcus meningitis / by Henry Heiman ... and Samuel Feldstein ... with introduction by Henry Koplik ... with 4 plates, 31 figures, 2 in color, and 4 charts.

  • Heiman, Henry, 1865-
Date:
[1913], [©1913]
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Credit: Meningococcus meningitis / by Henry Heiman ... and Samuel Feldstein ... with introduction by Henry Koplik ... with 4 plates, 31 figures, 2 in color, and 4 charts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sive epidemics in the United States, Portugal, Ger- many, England, and France. The following brief historical account is based on the studies of Hirsch and Jacobi. The First Period (1805-1830).—During the first period the disease was epidemic not only in Med- field but also in New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Vermont, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maine. From 1814 to 1816 epidemics occurred in all the New England States. From 1816 to 1823 no severe epidemics were ob- served. In 1823 there was an epidemic outbreak in Middletown, Conn. The epidemic in Trumbull, Ohio, in 1828, closed the first period in the United States. Three important contributions to the Ameri- can literature of the disease were made in this period: the paper by Danielson and Mann, already men- tioned; the communication by a committee of the Massachusetts Medical Society (consisting of James Jackson, Thomas Welch, and J. C. Warren) ; and the classical book by Elisha North entitled, A Treatise on a Malignant Epidemic Commonly Called Spotted Fever. The epidemics were characterized by various eruptions and by the occurrence of pul- monary complications. In Europe the disease prevailed in Brianca, Dan- zig, Brest, Paris, and Metz. The frequency of erup-