Early recognition of typhoid fever. Rebbert (Deut, med. Woch., 1921, No. 51)

Rebbegt (Deut, med. Woch., 1921, No. 51) notes the importance of blood tests for the diagnosis of incipient typhoid fever: on the basis of egg experience, this author was convinced that the disappearance of eosinophils soon after the onset of fever and a drop in the number of leukocytes to 2000 are characteristic features of this disease.