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Credit: Pneumonia and typhoid fever : a study. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![favorable results, but still death resulted in 5 of these cases—about 20 per cent. Dr. Peabody says of this, the results are certainly better than those which have followed the expectant plan of treatment in any year in this hospital. But directly he says of it :—■ '*It would be a source of great regret to me to give the impression that I consider even this method of treatment as to be at all comparable with the antipyretic effect of cold water applied to the surface of tJie body. [The italics are mine.] It seems to me, he continues, that any one at all open to conviction by statistics cannot but admit that the recent statistics of Brand make a marvellously good showing for the cold-water treatment. After reading these statistics it would seem as if all other plans were of insignificant value when compared with this one. In corroboration of the foregoing, Dr. Peabody says : *' In the past few weeks I have subjected eleven cases in Bellevue Hospital to treatment by this method, and with very gratifying results. These patients all got ivelL [The italics are mine.] They were all adults, only one as young as twenty years, and most of them made of the very poor material which seeks admission to the public hos-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21211346_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
