Recent Researches into the Epidemiology of Malta Fever

IN this place it is not necessary to go into any detail in regard to the history or symptoms of this fever, but a few introductory words will not be amiss. Malta fever, as you are all aware, is a disease of long duration, averaging four months, but in some cases dragging out its weary length for one, two, or even three years. The temperature-curve is characterised by extreme irregularity, fresh exacerbations of fever being frequent. Another prominent feature of this fever is the presence of symptoms of a rheumatic or neuralgic character. Few marked cases pass through their course without the occurrence of painful and swollen joints or neuritis in various nerves, which combine with the prolonged temperature to bring the patient to a condition of extreme anrnmia and debility from which recovery to health is slow. I think I have said enough of the nature of this fever to impress upon those of you who are not familiar with it the importance and severe nature of the disease under discussion. Historical.-Let me say a word in regard to the history of