Excerpt from The Archives of Internal Medicine, 1911, Vol. 7 History - The patient, married, aged 23, from whom the spirilla were Obtained, was a native of Macedonia, who had just landed in Boston, and who had been a farmer in his home. He was admitted to the medical service at the Carney Hospital, Feb. 23. 1910. He had had no previous illness. Eighteen days before admission he sailed from a Mediterranean port. He became seasick almost immediately, vomited much during the entire trip and felt very weak. During the last five days of the voyage. He was reported to have had fever. He said that in his native town his wife and others had had a sickness with chills and fever. From the Medical Clinic of the Carney Hospital and the Laboratory of the Department of the Theory and Practice of Physic, Medical School, Harvard University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.