Public Health Reports Volume 31, Nos. 27-39 ebook

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Public Health Reports Volume 31, Nos. 27-39 ebook

Public Health Reports Volume 31, Nos. 27-39. United States Public Service

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Author: United States Public Service
Page Count: 400 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9781130944754
File size: 20 Mb
Download Link: Public Health Reports Volume 31, Nos. 27-39
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...is superior to the microscopic method if either is to he used singly. The workers at New Orleans have placed their main dependence upon the naked-eye appearance of rats in their past laboratory examinations and expect to continue to do so. As a matter of fact they have on many occasions made a diagnosis of rodent plague from gross lesions in cases where the " smear" was negative. Moreover, a considerable number of rats were found to be not plague infected, although suggestive organisms were present in the smears. Experience will teach most plague workers that the appearance of "suspected" organisms in smears from rodent tissues can be considered only as suggestive and not as absolutely distinctive. The present note relative to diagnosis of rodent plague is presented therefore with the intention of emphasizing the fact that the macroscopic method of diagnosis has its limitations as well as the microscopic, and that it is advisable to supplement the former by the latter method, placing the greater dependence on the naked-eye appearance and making all possible diagnoses thereby, but nevertheless employing the microscopic examination of "smears" from tissues, as a " second line of defense." BREAD AS A FOOD. In the Public Health Reports for April 14, 1916 (p. 935), there appeared an article under the following heading: "Bread as a food," with a subheading, "Changes in its vitamine content and nutritive value with reference to the occurrence of pellagra." The facts set forth as regards pellagra have not been challenged, but as some erroneous inferences concerning the value of white flour and of bread made from it have been drawn from the paper, it appears desirable to submit the following statement: The ...

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