Remarks on diphtheria, chiefly with reference to its contagious, epidemic, and fatal character : and to its supposed connexion with the cattle plague, and with a certain state of the weather founded on the details of several recent cases / by T.W. Belcher.
- Thomas Waugh Belcher
- Date:
- [1866]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on diphtheria, chiefly with reference to its contagious, epidemic, and fatal character : and to its supposed connexion with the cattle plague, and with a certain state of the weather founded on the details of several recent cases / by T.W. Belcher. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[Reprinted from the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, May, 1866.] Art. XVI.—Remarks on Diphtheria, chiefly with reference to its Contagious, Epidemic, andj Fatal Character; and to its Supposed Connexion with the Cattle Plague, and with a Certain State of the Weather; founded on the Details of Several Recent Cases. By T. W. Belcher, M.A. and M.D., Dublin; Fellow and Censor of the Boyal College of Physicians in Ireland; Physician to the Dublin Dispensary for Skin Diseases; and sometime Physician to the Cork Fever Hospital.b The following observations are laid before the profession, not because of their originality, for no claim is here made to anything of the kind, but solely because of the practical importance of any well ascertained facts respecting so fatal a disease as diphtheria. The fact, often noted by observers, that the more fatal varieties of this disease are not commonly met with in hospitals renders it of greater moment that such cases as are met with in private practice should be duly recorded. Case I.—A lad, aged about fourteen, a boarder in a large school in this city, was attacked, shortly before Christmas, 1865, with an Thin frnnmt 7 j i ittiVi i |i a 1 ttht inrmna in hoftptbd ;vlllit,?Lli;Liiu sn tho l-fttlTRiid 1309* b Read before the Medical Society of the College of Physicians, Dublin, 21st February, 1866.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3056735x_0002.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
