ORIGIN OF TRENCH FEVER
VETERANS' HEROIC ASSISTANCE IN ■ INVESTIGATIONS. London, May 23. A number of old Londoners, and veterans of former wars. wJio were unable to servo now, but \verc 9 -'anxious to help the country, submitted, to infection with trench fever at a hospital in Hampstead, in order to enable the doctors to ascertain the origin of tho disease. It is . now definitely established that it is causo<l by tho excreta of lice instead of by ice bites. All the patients survived. U is believed that the experiment will lead to the discovery of tho germ, so that tho infection of soldiers' blood may bo eliminated and death - preveutcd.-"Tho limes."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 211, 25 May 1918, Page 7
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111ORIGIN OF TRENCH FEVER Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 211, 25 May 1918, Page 7
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