THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



B. The Philippine Journal of 

 Tropical Medicine 



Vol. VII JUNE, 1912 No. 3 



STUDIES ON PNEUMONIC PLAGUE AND PLAGUE 

 IMMUNIZATION. 



CONTENTS. 

 I. Introduction. The expedition to Manchuria and the conditions 



UNDER which THE WORK WAS PERFORMED THERE. 



n. Method of transmission of the infection in pneumonic plague 



AND manner of SPREAD OF THE DISEASE DURING THE EPIDEMIC 



IIL Influence of atmospheric temperature upon the spread of pneu- 

 monic PLAGUE. 



IV. Portal of entry of infection and method of development of the 

 lesions in pneumonic and primary septicemic plague. Experi- 

 mental PATHOLOGY. ,,\v>^'"^''^''''^ ''^'''^/^//X. 



V. Clinical observations. 

 VI. Bacteriology. 

 VII. Pathology. 



VIII. Susceptibility of animals to pneumonic plague. 

 IX. Protective inoculation against pneumonic plague. 

 X. Immunization of guinea pigs by vaccination with avirulent 



PLAGUE bacilli MIXED WITH AGAR. 



XI. The INFECTION of guinea PIGS, monkeys, AND RATS WITH DOSES OF 

 PLAGUE BACILLI RANGING FROM ONE BACILLUS UPWARDS. 



XII. Efficacy of various masks for protection against pneumonic 



PLAGUE. 

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