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Pneumonic Plague

Categories: Infectious Diseases

The symptoms are those of a severe "lobular" pneumonia,
with bloody sputum containing many bacilli. It is usually rapidly fatal.

Death rate may reach ninety per cent.



Treatment. Prevention. Prolonged isolation, disinfection of the

discharges, cremation of plague victims, destruction of rats, and

preventive inoculation of healthy persons with sterilized cultures of the

bacillus pestis.



Immunity following this procedure is said to last from one to eighteen

months.



For pain, morphine; for weakness, stimulation; for fever, bathing; for

buboes, application of ice, injection of bichloride and excision have been

advised.



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