A NOTE ON RAT-BITE FEVER, WITH REPORT AND TEMPERATURE CHART OF A RECENT CASE
R. W. Cruickshank · BMJ · 1912
NAT-BITE FEVER.[MEDICAL JOURNA 'r437 )oSSible, wlhich it is not, that each group receive an equal aimount of infection.Then if the same amount of infection were to equally infect tlle children in both grouips, it would follow that infcction must be the principal deter- imining cause of the disease.Again, if the samiie amount of infection whiclh infected the children of infectious cases did not infect the children of non-infectious cases, it is clear that this difference in susceptibility would be due to some factor other than transmitted qualities commuon to botlh, and other than the amount of infection wlhich we