A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain / by Charles Murchison.

  • Charles Murchison
Date:
1862
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Credit: A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain / by Charles Murchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PREFACE. 0 Apology is necessary for offering to the profession a Treatise on the Continued Fevers of Great Britain; as no work of the kind has been published by any English physician for nearly a quarter of a century, notwithstanding the great advance of late years in our knowledge of the diseases in question. Some account, how- ever, may be expected of the author of a work on what is acknowledged to be one of the most difficult subjects in Medicine. During my connection with the London Fever Hospital, extending over upwards of six years, I have had unusually favourable oppor- tunities for studying the diseases of which I treat. I was also a clinical clerk in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, during the great epidemic of typhus and relapsing fever in 1847-8. Afterwards, I studied fever for several months in Dublin and Paris ; and, while serving with the army in India and Burmah, I had the advantage of being able to compare the fevers of tropical climates with those of this country. Lastly, having twice suffered from one of the diseases which I have here attempted to describe, I may adopt the plea, by which Thucydides justified himself, in writing the history of the Plague of Athens : ' ravra BijTuoaQ) avro'i re vocr'i]aa<i, koX avrd<> It has been my humble endeavour, in this work, to follow the example of Louis, and, wherever it has been practicable, to reduce my observations to a numerical expression. Some writers object to the application of statistics to medical science, and prefer trust- ing to what they call experience. But experience, to be of value
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