"Spekk-finger" or Sealer's Finger

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:ARCTIC
Main Author: Rodahl, Kaare
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1952
Subjects:
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
Greenland
Arctic
inuit
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66964
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Summary: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).

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