Selected monographs.

Date:: 1888

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Credit: Selected monographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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ON THE NATUEE AND PATHOLOGY OF TYPHUS AND TYPHOID EEYEE.^ It is my object, in the following pages, to attempt, by a reference to facts, tbe elucidation of a question, wliicli is confessedly surrounded with, diflficulties, and lias called into tbe field of controversy some of tbe most gifted men of the present day,—some of them espousing one opinion, some another, while others still suspend their judgment, till the production of new facts and reasonings shall have dissipated, in part at least, the darkness in which the subject is involved. It is, indeed, not a little remarkable that, in a country like Great Britain, where typhus sacrifices yeai-ly its thousands of victims,—where it is all but universally ad- mitted that the local lesion of the intestinal follicles is not a characteristic sign of the disease,—and where, on that very ground, the doctrines of Broussais have never been able to establish themselves, there should still bo wanting any standard work upon the nature, symptoms, and necroscopic appearances of typhus, such as those of Chomel, Louis, and others, who, on this side the Channel, have achieved the triumph of pathological science in a class of diseases of which the anatomical lesions were so long unknown. Hence the un- certainty that prevails in France in regard to the question I ' This paper is reprinted from a copy in the library of the Royal Medical and Chirargical Society, which contains many marginal corrections in the handwriting of the author.