Miliary fever

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Miliary fever was a loose medical term used in the past to indicate a general cause of infectious disease that cause an acute fever and skin rashes similar to the cereal grain called proso millet. [1] [2] The term has been used for various local epidemics in previous centuries, and considered synonymous with other diagnoses, including "sweating sickness", [3] "prickly heat", [4] or "Picardy sweat" (after the region in Northern France). [5] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death report showed this non-specific, by today's standards, term. [1]

After subsequent advances in medicine, this term fell into disuse, supplanted by other more specific names of diseases, for example the modern miliary tuberculosis.

References

  1. 1 2 Wheater, M (September 1990). "Mozart's last illness--a medical diagnosis". J R Soc Med. 83 (9): 586–9. doi:10.1177/014107689008300917. PMC   1292822 . PMID   2213810.
  2. ↑ Murray, RD (March 1886). "Presidency General Hospital: Cases of Miliary Fever". Indian Med Gaz. 21 (3): 77–78. PMC   5001008 . PMID   28999591.
  3. ↑ "Miliary Fever, or the Sweating Sickness" . The Lancet. 168 (4342): 1374–1375. 17 November 1906. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)68887-6 . Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  4. ↑ Renbourn, ET (May 1958). "The history of sweat and prickly heat, 19th-20th century". J Invest Dermatol. 30 (5): 249–59. doi: 10.1038/jid.1958.50 . PMID   13549798.
  5. ↑ Cliff, AD; Smallman-Raynor, MR; et al. (2009). "'Disease Emergence and Re-emergence Prior to 1850'". Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Analysis: Emergence and Re-emergence. Oxford: Oxford Academic. p. 87. ISBN   9780199244737 . Retrieved 11 February 2024.


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