Blood Diseases

Malta Fever This disease mostly prevails in Malta and places on the Mediterranean coast. It is also found in India and other eastern countries. It is characterized by long continued fever, obstinate constipation, profuse perspiration,…

Erysipelas It is a very contagious spreading inflammation of the skin, due to entrance of some poison through a wound or scratch into the system. It is accompanied with fever, chill, glandular swelling, constitutional disturbances,…

Scarlatina Like measles and chicken pox, it is also a contagious disease but it is more fatal. Eruptions all over the body and sore-throat are the principal symptoms. It chiefly affects children. Sudden chill, high temperature, thirst,…

Chicken Pox This is a mild type of infectious disease. The pustules or pimple like eruptions are almost similar in appearance to those of Small pox for which it is somewhat difficult to distinguish one from the other at the first stage.…

Small Pox Cause—It is an infectious disease, caused by a germ that has not yet been identified. Types— (1) Confluent, (2) Discrete or separate, (3) Haemorrhagic. Symptoms—Incubation period—10 to 12 days. Primary Fever ushered in with…

Measles It is an infectious disease, found usually amongst children, though adults are by no means immune. The incubation period is 10-12 days. It is ushered in with cold and catarrh, injected eyes, frontal headache, hoarse voice, aches…

Glandular Fever It is generally prevalent as a contagious disease amongst the children. High temperature, red cheeks, swelling of joints of neck and nose, enlargement of liver and spleen, loss of appetite are the predominating symptoms.…

Yellow Fever Cause—It is caused by germs carried from the diseased to healthy person by the stegomiya mosquito. These mosquitoes are uncommon in India and the opening up of the Panama canal is likely to have cast about the germs of this…

Dengue (Break-bone or Dandy Fever) The onset of this disease is with slight chill and intense pain all over the body (especially in the joints). Fever with chilliness, nausea, localized swelling here and there and red pimple-like…

Relapsing Fever Sudden onset of fever with rigor lasting about a week and thereafter a period of apyrexia for a week follows. In this way, six or seven attacks alternate with periods of pyrexia. Headache, joint-aches, thirst vomiting,…

Typhus It is an infectious disease. It commences with chill, headache and high temperature (103°—105°F.) and the patient becomes soon comatose and bluish. In 5 or 6 days, small purple pimples appear all over the body. It lasts for 2 weeks.…

Enteric or Typhoid Fever Cause—The cause is a germ (Eberth’s Bacillus Typhosus) which gains entrance into our body through food or drink. This germ is eliminated in the patient’s sweat, sputum, urine and saliva. Any of these excreta may…

Kala-Azar (Malarial Cachexia of old writers. ‘Black Fever’ or Dum Dum fever, Leishman Donovan Infection). It is a disease caused by the entry of microscopic living Leishman-Donovan bodies into our blood through bite, probably of…

Malarious Intermittent Fever ‘Malaria’ means ‘bad air’ or ‘miasma’ and ‘intermittent’ means a fever in which the temperature comes down to normal or below normal in 24 hours. Cause—The presence, in our blood, of a microscopic parasite…

Continued Fever (Seven day or Ten-day fever) Symptoms: Beginning with chill and rigor, patient feels now chilly now hot; the skin is hot, dry and rough; there restlessness, thirst, dry and white, furred tongue, quick and full pulse, rapid…