| Show earlier diagnosis of foreign disease now made possible fear that returned vets will harbor latent ills Is somewhat dispelled fears that strange diseases which will be brou brought home to this country by returning servicemen may escape early detection have been somewhat eased by the work of one industrial medical director dr E H carleton Cari eton head of the medical department of inland steel company has devised a practical out outline 0 of f tropical asiatic and other foreign diseases for the use of his own staff and any other interested physicians for the anticipation and detection of ailments which have heretofore been uncommon in american practice we believe he said that our list of diseases will play a threefold role in the future protect returned servicemen from inaccurate diagnosis of diseases or their after effects that may not appear for foi months or even years after they come back to this country protect fellow workers from infection in our companas comp anys plants and protect their neighbors families friends and the general public from contracting tr the infections service history needed the success of dr Carle tons index depends largely upon full knowledge of intimate details of the patients life in service all the places where he was stationed visited or passed through sicknesses he suffered symptoms felt before or after his discharge from service each division of the index lists the diseases endemic to that area the result is an alphabetical geographical guide to disease many infections have been of such local character until now that they are known to the average american doctor only as names in medical books diseases which are worldwide world corid wide in character or that can be easily diagnosed by american doctors are ignored in the index typical of the geographical listings in dr Carle tons guide are afghanistan epidemic typhus fever africa east tertian malaria rat bite fever africa spanish west dengue fever formosa all venereal diseases wells disease fungus infections trachoma widespread malaria dengue fever filar lasis fever relapsing fever united states southeastern elephantiasis P united states midwest amebic amelic dysentery india southern dengue fever yugoslavia epidemic typhus fever in another section of the guide the little known diseases are listed alphabetically and described succinctly as to cause of infection nature of the infecting organism symptoms and or after effects makes diagnosis easier thus should a veteran suddenly become ill many months later with symptoms not readily recognized by the doctor the latter need only to refer to the mans medical record and to the index for a possible clue to the nature of the ailment |
