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IS IT A FORM OF INFLUENZA?

H. A. WILDMAN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1933;52(6):959-977.

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Although influenza may be complicated by disturbances of the gastro-intestinal tract, many able clinicians have felt for some time that there is no true gastro-intestinal form of influenza in which the primary infection invades the alimentary canal. Boone¹ described a clinical condition with abdominal symptoms, which is usually called intestinal influenza, perhaps for want of a better name. Zahorsky,² McLean³ and Lucas⁴ described what is probably the same condition in children. Spencer⁵ studied similar cases in the national parks of the West during the summers of 1929 and 1930. He stated that the disorder is a summer disease; on the other hand, Zahorsky said that the cases studied by him occurred in winter, and he accordingly gave the disease the name hyperemesis hiemis (winter vomiting disease).

The present report is based on a study of a group of about 750 college students seen between September, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
IMLAY CITY, MICH.

From the Department of Hygiene, College of Wooster.

Footnotes
The following assistance was given: statistical studies by Miss Miriam Winkler, my secretary; classification of isolated organisms by Dr. G. W. McCoy, Director of the National Institute of Health, Washington, D. C.; Dr. E. O. Jordan, Chairman of the Department of Bacteriology, the University of Chicago, and Dr. W. W. Ford, Professor of Bacteriology, Johns Hopkins University. Some epidemiological material was furnished by Dr. R. R. Spencer of the United States Public Health Service. Some of the drugs for the research were supplied by Sharp & Dohme, Baltimore, and by the William S. Merrel Company, Cincinnati.

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