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Infectious Disease Service: Infectious Types of Heart Disease. During the early 1900's infectious types of heart disease were the greatest scourge, making up much more than half of all the cardiac cases. Today they account for less than a fourth of all cases in the United States and other countries that are equally prosperous and equally able to control infectious diseases. The two major infectious heart diseases in the United States are rheumatic heart disease and syphilitic heart disease.
Vaccination was in general very favorably received, and its application became widespread and has continued with only minor modifications. Elucidation of the fundamental principles underlying Jenner's vaccination, and the commonly observed refractoriness to a second attack of many of the infectious diseases, was, however, necessarily dependent on the discovery of the specific microbic etiology of infectious disease and the exploration of the relation between these pathogenic agents and their host. It was then possible to show, as Louis Pasteur did from 1877 to 1885 in his studies on anthrax, chicken cholera, swine erysipelas, and rabies, that prophylaxis of infectious disease by artificial inoculation is a generally applicable phenomenon and not one confined to smallpox.
JOHN P. Uxz, M.D.,ief, Infectious Disease Service, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Be-thesda, MD.
RABINOWITZ, ra-bi-no'vits, Solomon tter known by the pen name SHOLOM ALEI-:M, also written SHALOM and SHOLEM), Yid-i writer: b. Pereyaslav, Russia, Feb. 18, 1859; Cew York, N.Y., May 13, 1916. The recipient t good Jewish education, he was forced to support himself as a tutor when he was 17. In 1885 he became the administrator of a rich estate, and for many years thereafter, in Odessa and Kiev, he followed simultaneous careers as a writer and a businessman, meeting with more success in the former occupation. |
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