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A CONSIDERATION OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE CASES, WITH OBSERVATIONS AT AUTOPSY IN ONE

CHARLES N. KAVANAUGH, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1935;55(1):61-85.

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It is my purpose in this paper not to review to any extent the literature pertaining to tularemia but to report a study of 123 cases of tularemia coming under my personal observation and, incidentally, to add new clinical and pathologic material to the known facts concerning an interesting and comparatively new disease.

HISTORY

Tularemia has the distinction of being a truly American disease. American investigators not only discovered its specific etiologic agent and its modes of transmission from animal to animal and from animal to man but described completely, for the first time, its bacteriology, pathology and clinical manifestations.

McCoy,¹ in 1911, contributed the first scientific knowledge of the disease by his description of a "plague-like disease of rodents" which he encountered while investigating a plague among ground squirrels in California. In 1912, the causative organism was identified by McCoy and Chapin² and given the name Bacillus . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
LEXINGTON, KY.

From the Department of Internal Medicine, the Lexington Clinic.

Footnotes
The material used in this article was presented as a part of the Scientific Exhibit at the Seventy-Ninth Annual Session of the American Medical Association at Philadelphia in June 1931, and at the Eighty-First Annual Session of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania at Scranton, October 1931.

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