"Spekk-finger" or Sealer's Finger
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic3915Ключевые слова:
Biographies, Costs, Crime, Curricula, Economic conditions, Education, Employment, Food, Formation, Government, Health, Health care, Ice cover, Inuit, Inuit languages, Literature, Lutheran Church, Marine navigation, Melting, Mental health and well-being, Movement, Sea ice, Spatial distribution, Teachers, Trapping, Tuberculosis, Welfare, Canadian Arctic, Canadian Arctic waters, GreenlandАннотация
Contains an account of a severe local infection (cellulitis) common among sealers, especially those handling the blubber (spekk) or skins. Its occurrence and distribution, symptoms, cause (not as yet established, but probably Erysipelothrix rhusiopatiae), treatment, including latest experiment with antibiotics are discussed. Description of a case is given, and measures of prevention indicated. Bibliography (11 items).Загрузки
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1952-01-01
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