TULAREMIA

Abstract

In a review of the literature on tularemia we have been able to find but eight cases in which the autopsy observations are reported. The first was put on record by Verbrycke 1 in 1924. His patient died eighteen days after the onset of the illness, and the lesions of tularemia were found in the lungs, spleen and lymph nodes. The next case was reported by Kolle and Wassermann. 2 This patient died twenty-six days after the onset of the illness, and the lesions were limited to the spleen. In 1927 Francis and Callender 3 described the case of a patient who died approximately five months after a presumptive exposure, and lesions were found in the lungs, liver, spleen and lymph nodes. In 1928 five more cases were reported. Bardon and Berdez 4 reported one in which the patient died sixteen days after the onset of the illness, and lesions