Mountain Fever and Spotted Fever of the Rocky Mountains-Clinical Studies
Authors: Noxon Toomey
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1931)

Article1 November 1931Mountain Fever and Spotted Fever of the Rocky Mountains-Clinical StudiesNOXON TOOMEY, B.A., M.D., F.A.C.P.NOXON TOOMEY, B.A., M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-5-5-585 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptUnknown fevers first encountered by white immigrants in the Rocky Mountain region between 1850 and 1873 have become of constantly increasing clinical interest and public health moment due to recent discoveries of new and widened endemic areas, and to the involved medical problems now more fully appreciated.Scientific study of fevers in the Rocky Mountain region began clinically in 1880, epidemiologically and pathologically in 1902, bacteriologically in 1906, immunologically in 1908, and preventively in 1911. These studies have so increased rather than narrowed the fields of inquiry that much of what has been written has had to be rewritten from...References ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER MOUNTAIN FEVER ARGASID SPIROCHETOSIS1 SWEETSPRINGERCOLLISTERFAIRCHILDBOWERSDUBOISFIGGINSZIPF CLWDGRMLCJKDWH WOOD MW (through : Spotted fever as reported from Idaho. Report of the Surgeon-General, U. S. Army, for period ending July 1, 1896, Wash., D. C., Govt. Print. O., 1896, pp. 60-65. Google Scholar2 MAXEY EE: Some observations on the so-called spotted fever of Idaho, Med. Sentinel, 1899, vii, 433-438. Google Scholar4 MCCULLOUGH GT: Spotted fever, Med. Sentinel, 1902, x, 225-228. Google Scholar8 WILSONCHOWNING LBWM: Report on the investigation of so-called spotted fever, 1st Bien. Rep. Montana St. Bd. Health, Helena, 1903, 26-91. Google Scholar15 STILES CW: Preliminary report upon a zoological investigation into the cause, transmission, and source of the so-called spotted fever of the Rocky Mountains, Ann. Rep. Surg. Gen., U. S. Pub. Health and Mar. Hosp. Serv., Wash., D. C., 1904, 362-363; and Pub. Health Rpts., U. S. Pub. Health and Mar. Hosp. Serv., 1904, xix, 1649-1650. Google Scholar21 STITH RM: Tick fever, with report of case, Northwest Med., iii, 201-205. Google Scholar31 SPENCER WO: Mountain or spotted fever as seen in Idaho and Eastern Oregon, Med. Sentinel, 1905, xv, 532-537. Google Scholar41 ROBINSON AA: Rocky Mountain spotted fever; with report of a case, Med. Rec., 1908, lxxiv, 913-922. Google Scholar43 PEARSE RA: Tick or Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Utah Med. Jr. (Denver Med. Times), 1909, xxviii, 415. Google Scholar45 MAXEY EE: Rocky Mountain spotted (tick) fever; with special reference to casual [sic] factors, mortality and geographical distribution in Idaho, Med. Sentinel, 1908, xvi, 666-678, discussion, 704-711. Google Scholar46 STEWARTSMITH JLWF: Clinical phases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Med. Sentinel, 1908, xvi, 678-687. Google Scholar86 COOLEY RA: Notes on little known habits of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever tick (Dermacentor venustus Banks), Jr. Econom. Entomol., 1913, vi, 93-95. CrossrefGoogle Scholar98 KELLEY FL: Rocky Mountain spotted fever; its prevalence and distribution in Modoc and Lassen counties, California; a preliminary report, Calif. St. Jr. Med., 1916, xiv, 407-409. Google Scholar101 CAMPBELL AJ: Rocky Mountain spotted or tick fever, Colorado Med., 1916, xiii, 209-213. Google Scholar108 PARKERWELLS RRRW: Some facts of importance concerning the Rocky Mountain spotted fever tick (Dermacentor venustus Banks) in Eastern Montana, 2d Bien. Rep. Montana St. Bd. Entomol., 1917, 45-56. Google Scholar109 CUMMING JG: Rocky Mountain spotted fever in California, Jr. Infect. Dis., 1917, xxi, 509-514. CrossrefGoogle Scholar114 PARKER RR: Some results of two years' investigations of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever tick in Eastern Montana, Jr. Econom. Entomol., 1918, xi., 189-194. CrossrefGoogle Scholar129 PARKER RR: Maintenance of the virus of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in nature with particular reference to conditions in the Bitter Root Valley, Special Bull. No. 26, Montana St. Bd. Health, 1923, 33-40. Google Scholar134 STRICKER FC: The prevalency and distribution of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Oregon, Special Bull. No. 26, Montana St. Bd. Health, 1923, 18-20. Google Scholar146 WOLBACHPINKERTONSCHLESINGER SBHMJ: The cultivation of the organisms of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus in tissue cultures, 5th Bien. Rep. Montana St. Bd. Entomol., 1924, 29-32. Google Scholar157 BROWNMAGEE BG: A fatal case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Calif. and West. Med., 1925, xxiii, 1177. Google Scholar164 BECKER FE: Investigations on Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Colorado, Jr. Infect. Dis., 1926, xxxix, 81-88. CrossrefGoogle Scholar192 PARKER RR: Rocky Mountain spotted (tick) fever, Bull. Nevada St. Bd. Health, No. 9, 1929, 3-17. Google Scholar198 SPENCERPARKER RRRR: Infection by other means than tick bites, Bull. No. 154, Hyg. Lab., U. S. Pub. Health Serv., 1930, 60-63. Google Scholar201 PARKERSPENCER RRRR: Results of four years' human vaccination, Bull. No. 154, Hyg. Lab., U. S. Pub. Health Serv., 1930, 72-103. Google Scholar203 BECKER FE: Tick borne diseases in Colorado, Colorado Med., 1930, xxvii, 36-44, 87-95. Google Scholar207 COOLEY RA: Review of tick parasite work for 1929 and 1930, 8th Bien. Rep. Montana St. Bd. Entomol., 1931, 16-25. Google Scholar208 KOHLS GM: A summary of parasite liberations, 8th Bien. Rep. Montana St. Bd. Entomol., 1931, 26-35. Google Scholar214 TONKIN AB: Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Wyoming, Colorado Med., 1931, xxviii, 97-100. Google Scholar218 DYERBADGERRUMREICH RELFA: Rocky Mountain spotted fever (Eastern type) Transmission by the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), Pub. Health Rep., U. S., Pub. Health Serv., 1931, xlvi, 1403-1413. CrossrefGoogle Scholar219 NEWS ITEMS IN JR. AM. MED. ASSOC.: 1926, lxxxvii, 251-252, 1402, 1745; 1927, lxxxviii, 1649; lxxxix, 530; 1928, xc, 1049, 1223; cxi, 807; 1929, xcii, 731, 1605; xciii, 1229-1230; 1930, xciv, 709. Google Scholar3 WAGGONER FR: On the mountain or continued miasmatic fever of Colorado territory, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1850, N. S. 1, 50-55. Google Scholar5 BOYLE CE: On mountain fever, St. Louis Med. and Surg. Jr., 1851, ix, 454-456; and Ohio Med. and Surg. Jr., 1851, iii, 528-530. Google Scholar6 OATMAN JE: Mountain and malarious fevers produced by the same cause, Boston Med. and Surg. Jr., 1851, xliv, 511-512; and Northwest Med. and Surg. Jr., 1851, viii, 105-108. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7 EWING WT: Mountain fever, St. Louis Med. and Surg. Jr., 1855, xiii, 109-116. Google Scholar9 PATZKI : Sanitary Report, Fort Steele, Wyoming Territory. Report on Hygiene of U. S. Army, 1975, p. 385. Google Scholar10 TOWN FL: Sanitary Report, Fort Shaw, Montana. Report on Hygiene of U. S. Army, 1875, p. 434. Google Scholar11 JAQUETTE : Sanitary report, Fort Boise, Idaho. Report on Hygiene of U. S. Army, 1875, p. 460. Google Scholar12 SMART C: On mountain fever and malarious waters, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1878, lxxv, 17-43. CrossrefGoogle Scholar13 HOFF JV: Typho-malarial fever, the so-called "Mountain Fever" of the Rocky Mountain region, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1880, lxxix, 38-60. CrossrefGoogle Scholar14 REBER CT: Mountain fever and malarious waters, swamp fever and marsh miasm, St. Louis Med. and Surg. Jr., 1880, xxxviii, 448-451. Google Scholar16 BESHOAR M: Mountain fever, Rocky Mount. Med. Rev., 1881, i, 328. Google Scholar17 _____: Mountain fever and pneumonia, Calif. Med. Jr., 1882, iii, 397, 433. Google Scholar18 NEWTON RC: A case of mountain fever, Phila. Med. Times, 1882, xiii, 7-9. Google Scholar19 THOMPSON JE: Mountain fever, St. Louis Courier Med., 1884, xii, 298-307. Google Scholar20 CURTIN RG: Rocky Mountain fever, Trans. Am. Climat. Assoc., 1886, N. Y., 1887, iii, 90-197; and N. Y. Med. Jr., 1887, xlv, 29-31. Google Scholar22 HUBER L: The so-called mountain fever of Colorado and adjacent regions, its description and treatment, Med. News, 1890, lvii, 278-281. Google Scholar23 TREACY W: Mountain fever, Times and Register, 1890, xxi, 75-78. Google Scholar24 CAMPBELL WA: The identity of typhoid and the severer forms of so-called mountain fever, Trans. Colorado Med. Soc., 1892, 2-7-229; and Medical News, 1892, lxv, 479-482. Google Scholar25 WORK H: Mountain fever, Medical News, 1893, lxii, 376-378. Google Scholar26 ADAMS WE: Mountain fever, Med. Herald, St. Joseph, 1895, N. S., xiv, 480-482. Google Scholar27 WALKER JM: Mountain fever and its relation to typhoid, Trans. Am. Inst. Homeop., 1897, 432-446. Google Scholar28 RAYMOND EI: A peculiar mountain fever, Med. World, 1897, xv, 452. Google Scholar29 RAYMOND HI: Mountain fever, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1898, cxv, 276-294. CrossrefGoogle Scholar30 GEISENDORFER JA: Some peculiar forms of enteric fever, Med. Sentinel, 1898, vi, 8-10. Google Scholar32 STUVER E: Mountain fever, Med. News, 1899, lxxv, 577-581. Google Scholar33 ORMSBY EA: Bilious typhoid or mountain fever, Calif. Med. Jr., xx, 225-228. Google Scholar34 WOODRING WW: Mountain fever—so-called, Denver Med. Times, 1902, June. Google Scholar35 MEADER : Quoted by Weller and Graham; no publication located. Google Scholar82 NUTTALLWARBURTON GHC: Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea, 1902, Cambridge Univ. Press. Google Scholar83 WELLERGRAHAM BGM: Relapsing fever from tick bite in Texas, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1930, xcv, 1834-1835. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Palmyra, Mo.*Submitted for publication, July 31, 1931. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byPowassan Encephalitis and Colorado Tick FeverArbor-Viren (durch Arthropoden übertragbare Viren)Colorado Tick FeverColorado Tick Fever 1 November 1931Volume 5, Issue 5Page: 585-600KeywordsClinical epidemiologyFeversPrevention, policy, and public health ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 November 1931 PDF downloadLoading ...