La Peste Etat Actuel de la Question

Abstract

Tentative synthesis of the results of the researches on plague initiated in 1941 with Georges Blanc in Morocco, carried on in the persian Kurdistan since 1947 then in India, in Syria, in Turkey, in Irak and in Java. New acquisitions on the epidemization of human bubo-septicemic plague, discovery of the mode of spread of the rural plague, of the reasons of the seasonal nature of the disease under certain climates and of the interseasonal persistance (carry-over) of the infection, also of the reasons of its temporary persistence in certain foci and of its permanence in other foci. Essay on the decline of the infection and on its fate; new conceptions in the matter of prophylaxi