Selected monographs.

Date:: 1888

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22G typlius and smallpox, or occur independently. Subsequently he appears to have recognised and taught the distinction between the two rashes. In 1836 Dr. Lombard, of Geneva, who had studied fever both on the Continent and in this country, published a paper in the ' Dublin Medical Journal,' in which was maintained for the first time that two separate and distinct fevers occurred in Gi-eat Britain, one contagious typhus and one identical with the dothi en enteritis or typhoid fever of the French. But he did not discriminate between the eruptions and symptoms of the two. The progress of these doctrines, notwithstanding the con- clusive arguments of Lombard, Grerhard, Shattuck, H. C. Barlow, Stewart and others, was very slow, and in this country it was not till the publication of Sir William Jenner's papers in 1849, 1850, and 1853, that they obtained any- thing like general acceptance. On the whole, from this very brief risume of the question, I think it will be evident that to no one observer can any exclusive merit be ascribed. To Dr. Stewart belongs the credit of being one of the fi.rst to see clearly the truth and to have supported it by arguments which appear now to be absolutely convincing.