Word: tularemia
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Edward Francis, A.M.A. gold medal winner, 1928 discoverer of disease Tularemia, native of Shandon, Ohio LL.D...
...disease while studying its microorganism, Micrococcus melitensis. It is the second febrile disease he has contracted in the public health service. The other was rabbit fever, which hunters, butchers and furriers are apt to catch from infected rabbits (TIME, June 18 & Nov. 26). Academically, rabbit fever is termed tularemia, after Tulare County, Calif., where in 1910 it was first identified. Doctors, however, prefer to call it Francis Disease, in honor of Dr. Francis, who isolated the germ (Bacterium tularense) to his own harm, malaise and inconvenience...
With the hunting season beginning, doctors are trying to warn rabbit catchers against tularemia, rabbit fever. Lousy rabbits usually have the disease. Men catch it from handling infected animals, skinning them or eating them poorly cooked...
Hunters may fear that they have tularemia if they suddenly feel sharp chills and sweats, if at the same time they have severe headaches, aching pains in the back, hands and feet, prostration. Vomiting, diarrhea and delirium are other signs. Ulcers and swollen lymph glands usually develop...
Francis' Disease. Dr. Edward Francis, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C., told his astonished audience the facts of tularemia (TIME, July 23, 1923). Long known as "rabbit fever" among land-workers for its annual toll of thousands of rabbits and ground squirrels, this disease has been recognized as dangerous to man only in the last three years. Discovered in Tulare County, Calif. (1910), it was named tularemia. The germ in man was identified by Public Heath Server Francis in 1925, and the disease is known among the profession as "Francis' disease." Peering through microscope, poring over...