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Credit: Pneumonia and typhoid fever : a study. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![from university clinics and military hospitals, in which the cases were admitted early, and observed by well-trained medical men ; and they are the better adapted to the elucidation of this question of treatment because of the variety of sources from civil and military life. After supplying a still greater array of statistics, and reviewing the whole field, he says : ** Brand's claim, sustained by such incontrovertible proofs, certainly challenges attention ; and I ask you to-night to consider if we can with justice to suffering humanity, and with justice to ourselves, continue to treat it with indifference or scep- ticism ? Then, following a description of the method re- ferred to, and its successful results in his own prac- tice,— results, I may add, which I have also been so fortunate as to secure in my own, practice, — Dr. Baruch concludes with these remarkable words: — A review of the history of the treatment of typhoid fever convinces me that we have reached an epoch when we must choose between the fatal expecta7it plan [the italics are mine] and the suc- cessful plan to which I have had the honor to call your attention. The history of medicine does not present a parallel to the application of statistics for the elucidation of a question of therapeutics which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21211346_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
