. Preventive medicine and hygiene. y incriminate an enterocoecus, a normal inhabitant of the intes- 1 MacGregor, R. D.: A Case of Trench Fever Contracted in England, Brit-ish Medical Journal, Feb. 17, 1917, p. 1248 MILITAEY HYGIENE tinal tract of man, and found in numerous disease states, both medicaland surgical.^ It has also been pointed out that as many of the men have been hitwhile using the latrines, there is a decided tendency to go for three orfour days, or longer, without a bowel movement. One group of thesepyrexias may perhaps be ascribed to this cause, since corrective measure
. Preventive medicine and hygiene. y incriminate an enterocoecus, a normal inhabitant of the intes- 1 MacGregor, R. D.: A Case of Trench Fever Contracted in England, Brit-ish Medical Journal, Feb. 17, 1917, p. 1248 MILITAEY HYGIENE tinal tract of man, and found in numerous disease states, both medicaland surgical.^ It has also been pointed out that as many of the men have been hitwhile using the latrines, there is a decided tendency to go for three orfour days, or longer, without a bowel movement. One group of thesepyrexias may perhaps be ascribed to this cause, since corrective measuresinvariably clear up the conditions without a relapse. Cold, wet, andfatigue appear to be exciting causes. Apparently, climate is not a factor. Transmission.—McNee and Eenshaw found that trench fever couldbe transmitted to healthy soldiers by the intramuscular or intravenousinjections of blood of men suffering from the disease. Injection of thewashed red corpuscles had the same effect, but the plasma and serumwere not Fig. 186.—Trench Fever. {British Medical Journal, July 29, 1916.) It is stated that the incidence of trench fever is least in the cleanestbattalions and in the divisions which have the best facilities for some units a successful campaign against lice has been immediatelyfollowed by a great diminution in the incidence of trench fever. As aresult of rigorous measures the disease almost disappeared in the sum-mer of 1916 in Salonica. Captain A. L. Urquhard developed the shortform of trench fever after allowing lice from a patient with this formof the disease to bite him. Almost all the patients admit that theywere lice-infested up to the time of their entry into the hospital, sothat it is possible. Hurst thinks,- that the disease is probably conveyedby lice. It has been observed that when the men leave the front andhave a chance to observe the principles of personal hygiene, the incidence 1 Houston, T., and McCloy, J. M.: The Relation of th
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