. The American journal of tropical medicine. 137 OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONCEPTION THAT SPRUE IS A MYCOSIS SUPERIMPOSED UPON A STATE OF DEFICIENCY IN CERTAIN ESSENTIAL FOOD ELEMENTS^ BAILEY K. ASHFORDMedical Corps, United States Army INFECTION BY MONILIA PSILOSIS The writer has had to date over one thousand cases of typicalsprue in the Island of Porto Rico. The cases were studied infour periods: 1. A purely clinical series, 1908-1913. 2. A clinical series, checked upon by mycological study oftongue, scrapings and feces, 1914-1917. 3. A chnical series, checked upon by serologic study of patientsbl
. The American journal of tropical medicine. 137 OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONCEPTION THAT SPRUE IS A MYCOSIS SUPERIMPOSED UPON A STATE OF DEFICIENCY IN CERTAIN ESSENTIAL FOOD ELEMENTS^ BAILEY K. ASHFORDMedical Corps, United States Army INFECTION BY MONILIA PSILOSIS The writer has had to date over one thousand cases of typicalsprue in the Island of Porto Rico. The cases were studied infour periods: 1. A purely clinical series, 1908-1913. 2. A clinical series, checked upon by mycological study oftongue, scrapings and feces, 1914-1917. 3. A chnical series, checked upon by serologic study of patientsblood, 1920. 4. An unfinished series, 1921. The work upon the statistical data is not yet complete, but ingeneral it can be stated that of 350 cases in the first two series,of which about one-half received in treatment one-sided diets,there were 29 deaths, 4 of which were due to these cases sugar of commerce and cereals were prohibitedbut the treatment was, in general, that recommended in standardworks of that epoch on tropic
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