. Preventive medicine and hygiene. Fig. 180.—Trench Fever, Showing One Relapse (R). {The Lancet, Nov. 20, 1915.) term trench fever is a misnomer, for it occurs in training camps andin hospitals far away from the line of battle, and in persons who havenever even been at the front. T\^iile none of the cases have been fatal, the attack is severe enoughtemporarily to incapacitate the soldier for active duty. The total num-. FiG. 181.—Trench Fever, Showing First and Second {The Lancet, Nov. 20, 1915.) ber of days of unfitness for service caused by trench fever is astonishingwhen summed up
. Preventive medicine and hygiene. Fig. 180.—Trench Fever, Showing One Relapse (R). {The Lancet, Nov. 20, 1915.) term trench fever is a misnomer, for it occurs in training camps andin hospitals far away from the line of battle, and in persons who havenever even been at the front. T\^iile none of the cases have been fatal, the attack is severe enoughtemporarily to incapacitate the soldier for active duty. The total num-. FiG. 181.—Trench Fever, Showing First and Second {The Lancet, Nov. 20, 1915.) ber of days of unfitness for service caused by trench fever is astonishingwhen summed up for one division during one year. Trench fever has been reported especially in Flanders, France, andEngland, but also from the troops in ]\Iesopotamia, the Balkans, Salonica, 1 Hunt, G. H., and Rankin, A. C.: Intermittent Fever of Obscure Origin. Oc-curring Among British Soldiers in France, The Lancet, Nov. 20, 1915, p. 1133. DISEASES OF THE SOLDIER 1245 on the Volhynian front, and among Austrian and German troops onthe eastern front, and in Austrian troops in the Tyrol, Definition.—Trench fever includes a great number of cases of con-tinued, intermittent, irregular, and relapsing types of febrile fatal cases have occurred. One attack does not seem to give definiteprotection against subsequent attacks. The incubation in a few casesappears to be between 14 and 25 days. No important sequelae have b
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