Volume 1

Clinical observations on the pathology and treatment of continued fever, from cases occurring in the medical practice of St. Bartholomew's Hospital / [Edward Latham Ormerod].

  • Ormerod, Edward Latham, 1819-1873.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Clinical observations on the pathology and treatment of continued fever, from cases occurring in the medical practice of St. Bartholomew's Hospital / [Edward Latham Ormerod]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fested itself while the subject of the earlier pages was under consideration, and the particulars of which seemed too impor- tant, and too closely connected, to be distributed through the other chapters, in their appropriate places, as occasion offered. The apparent discordance of some facts observed during the commencement of this epidemic with what the author had been led to infer from the observations of other epidemics, has de- manded a closer investigation on his own part ; and now, though its further progress has removed those doubts from his own mind, it seems more agreeable to the spirit of inquiry inculcated in the following pages, to furnish the reader with the general facts, such as they are, than to ask his assent to a bare conclu- sion from them. Besides the more important particulars on which life and death depend, there are a few of less moment, but interesting on account of their frequency, for the display of which, however, it did not appear worth while to communicate the details of entire cases, as well on other accounts, as, lest the mention of a fact which was important only from its frequent recurrence, .should pass unnoticed among symptoms which are always of impor- tance. Such particulars have, therefore, been set down, all toge- ther, with the proper allowances, from an analysis of the notes of a large number of cases treated in this Hospital, during suc- cessive years. rom the same analysis, other facts have been collected, with relation to particular symptoms, and especially to treatment. It would be idle to claim any higher value than this for the analysis, which it may seem presumptuous to have put forward at all, in the existence of so complete a document as is that of Louis, on the same subject generally ; rather it should be excused in the present instance on the plea of the author’s incompetency to set out with suflicient clearness, in each narration, that which was important in connection with other cases, as well as that which gave to each case its own particular interest. To mark with the more distinct- ness the difference of the type of fever described in the last,
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