Period of infection of acute fevers.

Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Period of infection of acute fevers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Disease. Hooping Cough, Scarlet Fever, . Measles, . Diphtheria, Typhus, . Small-Pox, Period of Infection. 8 weeks, 7 do. 6 do. 6 do. 4 do. 14 days after disappearance of Scabs. Poem Written by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes for the Centennial Anniversary Dinner of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 8th June, 1881, and Read by Him on that occasion.—Dr. Holmes said on rising:—In speaking of some of the trials to which the members of the three “ learned pro¬ fessions ” are exposed, I have not hesitated to emphasize those specially belonging to the medical profession. I owe to my friends the physicians so much more than the practice of medicine owes to me that I feel at liberty to praise their calling without reserve, but no more than I think its due. Three paths there be where Learning’s favoured sons, Trained in the schools which hold her favoured ones, Follow their several stars with separate aim; Each has its honours, each its special claim. Bred in the fruitful cradle of the East, First, as of oldest lineage, comes the Priest; The Lawyer next, in wordy conflict strong, Full armed to battle for the right,—or wrong; Last, he whose calling finds its voice in deeds, Frail Nature’s helper in her sharpest needs. Each has his gifts, his losses and his gains, Each his own share of pleasures and of pains; No life-long aim with steadfast eye pursued Finds a smooth pathway all with roses strewed; Trouble belongs to man of woman born,— Tread where he may, his foot will find its thorn. Of all the guests at life’s perennial feast, Who of her children sits above the Priest ? For him the broidered robe, the carven seat, Pride at his beck, and beauty at his feet, For him the incense fumes, the wine is poured, Himself a god, adoring and adored ! His the first welcome when our hearts rejoice, His in our dying ear the latest voice,
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