RT Journal
A1 HARTSELL JA, MORRIS ML
T1 A report of sixty cases of wound diphtheria
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD May 10
VO 72
IS 19
SP 1351
OP 1353
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610190013005
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610190013005
AB I. CLINICAL 
    By Lieutenant HartsellIn reporting these cases of wound diphtheria it is necessary, first, to say a word about throat diphtheria occurring in our hospital. During the fall and early winter, throat diphtheria appeared; and while it never approached a real epidemic, its incidence was greater than would be expected in a hospital community. Our hospital during this time furnished more cases than any other unit, and some weeks furnished about two thirds of all the cases in a center of from eight to twelve hospital units. In our hospital, Ward A-1 furnished most of the cases. The first case of throat diphtheria appeared in Ward A-1, Oct. 14, 1918. Up to November 15, five other cases of throat diphtheria appeared. November 16, a general throat culture of the entire ward disclosed five carriers. In December, five clinical diphtherias and four carriers were found. January 2, another carrier