This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...to infection and infectiousness e/ectsofa, .. T., . in general. It is this: that we assume too readily that a number of cases of illness occurring simul-; taneously, or at short intervals after one another, are caused the one by the other; while, in fact, they common cause. may be induced by a common cause. ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...to infection and infectiousness e/ectsofa, .. T., . in general. It is this: that we assume too readily that a number of cases of illness occurring simul-; taneously, or at short intervals after one another, are caused the one by the other; while, in fact, they common cause. may be induced by a common cause. For instance, a number of cases of influenza may, each of them, be set up by exposure to cold (or heat, for these cases are common in hot weather), acting on persons whose bronchial mucous membrane is congested by improper feeding in the way suggested, and this in case after case; or they may be induced the one by the other by the passage of the infecting bacillus: or whatever the cause may be. Inasmuch as the members of a household live similarly, we can see how a predisposition to take influenza (or any other affection--bronchitis for example) may have been induced in all its members, and can hence easily understand how person after person might suffer, even although the one did not affect or infect the other. The different cases may have been successive or concomitant effects of a common cause, jis wellas cause and effect of one another. The danger, however, of confusing causes and effects with the concomitant or successive effects of a common cause is one which is always present with us in medicine, especially as regards the incidence of infectious disease. A number of persons in a household may, for example, each of them be poisoned by sewer gas which, let us suppose, enters the house and infects each person in turn with diphtheria; or, the first case, having been so caused, may have caused the second case by direct infection, and the second the third, the third the fourth, and so on. And it is possible, nay, I think it likely, that even..
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
