THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



B. Medical Sciences 



Vol. Ill JANUARY, 1908 No. 1 



A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TSUTSUGAMUSHI DISEASE 

 AND SPOTTED OR TICK FEVER OF MONTANA. 



By P. M. Ashbubn 1 and Charles F. Craig. 1 



I. Synonymy. 

 II. Introduction. 



III. History of both diseases. 



IV. Etiology. 



V. Symptoms — Tsutsugamushi, spotted fever. 

 VI. Blood examinations. 

 VII. Mortality. 



VIII. Immunity conferred by attack. 

 IX. Susceptibility of animals. 



X. Prognosis. 

 XI. Pathological anatomy. 

 XII. Diagnosis. 



XIII. Prophylaxis. 



XIV. Treatment. 



XV. Case histories of tsutsugamushi disease. 

 XVI. Conclusion as to the nonidentity of the two diseases. 

 XVII. Does flood fever occur in the Philippine Islands? 



I. SYNONYMY. 



Tsutsugamushi disease; Japanese river fever; flood fever; island 

 fever; kedani disease; aha mushi disease; shima mushi disease; yochu- 

 bioj shasliitsu. 



is a Japanese word meaning bug, and the compounds ending with it 

 all relate to the etiology of the disease. Tsutsugamushi is the term employed 

 by most Japanese people and professional men and, as it has the prestige derived 

 from ancient and specific usage, it will be employed in this paper. 



i Captain and assistant surgeon, United States Army, and first lieutenant 

 and assistant surgeon, United States Army, constituting the United States Army 

 Board for the Study of Tropical Diseases, as they occur in the Philippine Islands. 

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