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Penicillin and Malarial Fever Therapy Versus Penicillin and Vaccine (Typhoid) Fever Therapy

JOHN B. WATSON, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1949;59(1):86-93.

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THIS REPORT includes data relating to 15 patients treated with vaccine (typhoid) fever and penicillin and 17 patients treated with malarial fever and penicillin. About 80 per cent of the patients in each group had dementia paralytica or the tabetic form of dementia paralytica, the remaining 20 per cent having asymptomatic neurosyphilis, tabes dorsalis or meningovascular neurosyphilis.

The technic used in administering vaccine fever is similar to the continuous intravenous infusion method as used by Heyman.¹

TECHNIC OF VACCINE FEVER THERAPY

1. The temperature is held above 103 F. (axillary) from five to ten hours, depending on the condition of the patient.
   
2. The temperature is usually maintained around 104.5 F. (axillary) if possible, as this is the optimum temperature.
   
3. The temperature, pulse rate and rate of respirations are recorded at fifteen minute intervals while the temperature is above 102 F. (axillary) or whenever there is any doubt
   

Author Affiliations
TUSCALOOSA, ALA.

From the Veterans Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Footnotes
Published with the permission of the Chief Medical Director, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration, who assumes no responsibility for the opinions expressed or conclusions drawn herein.

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