Remarks on the changes which are supposed to have taken place in the type of continued fever / by Charles Murchison.

  • Charles Murchison
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[1858]
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Credit: Remarks on the changes which are supposed to have taken place in the type of continued fever / by Charles Murchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    after blood-letting in the relapsing epidemic of 1817-20, with what would be the effects of bleeding in the typhus of the present day. TABLE III. Mortality from the Cases of Continued Fever, taken collectively, ad¬ mitted into the London Fever Hospital in Ten Years.1 Years. No. of Cases. Deaths. Mortality Per Cent. 1848 707 148 20*93 1849 401 65 16-21 1850 361 50 13-85 1851 614 43 7-oo 1852 561 50 8-91 1853 787 149 18-93 1854 714 112 15-68 1855 622 113 18-16 1856 1300 230 17-69 1857 561 99 17-64 Total, 6628 1059 15-98 Deducting cases fatal 1 within 24 hours > 6567 998 15-19 after admission, ) Deducting cases fatal! within 48 hours, j 6482 913 14-07 1 During ten years the different forms of Continued Fever, admitted into the London Fever Hospital, have been carefully distinguished, and records have been preserved of every case. From these records I have prepared the tables contained in this paper. MURRAY ANI) GIBU, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.