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REPORT OF A CASE

HUGH R. LEAVELL, M.D.; HAROLD L. AMOSS, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1931;48(6):1186-1191.

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Undulant fever is generally considered to be a prolonged recurring disease. Marston,¹ in 1881, reported the average duration to be from three to ten weeks, but recognized a form that he described as so mild that the patient may never be confined to bed and all the while may be supposed to be laboring under a peculiar form of dyspepsia. He gave as diagnostic points in mild types of undulant fever: (1) gastric derangement that refuses to yield to any treatment; (2) great depression of the spirits out of all proportion to the symptoms; (3) slight pyrexial attacks, and (4) anemia, slow and progressive, with a marked tendency to an attack of rheumatism or neuralgia. In describing his own symptoms he probably described one of the earliest ambulatory cases.

Hughes,² in his classic monograph published in 1897, disregarded doubtful and nonfatal cases of less than three weeks' duration. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MARY POSTON; DURHAM, N. C.

From the Biological Division of the Medical Clinic of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Feb. 24, 1931.

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