Memorial of the life and work of Charles Morehead ... / edited by Hermann A. Haines.

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[1884]
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    country, away from all books, and shall be so till the 19th, when I return to Edinburgh ; so that what I write to you, without delay, is from recollection, but yet suffi- ciently accurate, I believe, for your purpose. “ Refer to ‘ Typhoid Fever ’ in the Second Edition of my ‘ Clinical Researches,’ and to my Report of Sanitary Progress in Bombay from 1830-1860 in tbe second vol. of the India Office Sanitary Reports (1868), head ‘ Typhoid Fever,’ and you will find the degree to which the opinion in the First Edition of the ‘ Researches ’ is altered ; and please do not, kindly, refer to me in connexion with this question without carefully considering these references.* Now, in respect to what has been written of Enteric Fever in India since these dates—to the extent that I am informed of it—I would say, that the anticipations formed by me, as expressed in the concluding suggestions of the remarks on Typhoid Fever, in my Second Edition, of a probable epoch of confusion, have been realised; and I hope that the time is near when the subject will be cleared of its doubts and difficulties. I am not acquainted with any Clinical Report of Enteric Fever in India—I mean, which gives the history of an epidemic, including recovered cases as well as fatal, and the ratio of deaths to reco- veries ; and until this is done the literature of the subject is manifestly incomplete. What I know of it in these later years is from post-mortem reports, chiefly those incorporated by Bryden in his Statistical Papers. I stated in the suggestions above referred to, that we were not justified in concluding that where there was Peyerian ulceration there had of necessity been Enteric Fever. In addition to the exceptions mentioned by me ” [at page 161, Second Edition.—N.C.],“you will find in my chapter on Measles in the First Edition of my ‘ Researches,’ one or two fatal cases in which there was Peyerian disease. * Reference to my chapter on True Enteric Fever in India (Medical Times and Gazette for September 20 and 27, 1879, pp. 3.S6 and 363) will show that this injunction was strictly obeyed.—N.C.
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