Book Description
The Director of the Army Historical Section, under whose guidance the project was placed at the request of the medical historian, has been of the greatest possible assistance. [...] The excellence of the illustrations is due to the foresight of those who appointed war artists and war photographers; their quality is due to the skill of the many who produced them. [...] The glands of the neck at the angles of the jaw were usually palpable, enlarged, and tender. [...] If the subsequent course of the disease and the negative throat cultures failed to support a clinical diagnosis of diphtheria, the diagnosis was changed to acute tonsillitis, or Vincent's angina, whichever proved to be the case, and the patient treated and disposed of as such. [...] While differences of opinion were held with regard to the value of repeated lumbar puncture in treatment, there was a general tendency to reduce the number of spinal taps, and in some hospitals lumbar puncture was done only for diagnosis, for recheck prior to the patient's discharge, or when some variation in the usual course of the infection was the cause of apprehension to the attending physicia.