TULAREMIA

Abstract

The autopsy report presented here is of particular interest since, from the careful records of numerous reports widely distributed through our country, Francis¹states that this is the earliest one in man so far reported. This autopsy, exactly sixteen days after the known exposure to and inoculation from a diseased rabbit, is several days earlier than any of the others reported, and the lesions found copied to a remarkable degree those found experimentally in inoculated animals, as well as those occurring spontaneously in animals. <h3>REPORT OF CASE</h3><h3>Onset, Incubation, Sequence and Clinical Course.</h3> —V. B., a white man, aged 53, married, who conducted a fox farm close to the north shore of Lake Superior, near the village of Toimi, July 25, 1927, cut up the carcass of a dead rabbit brought in by the cat, and fed it to his foxes. His wife stated that while doing this he