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

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[1884]
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    treatise, in 1856, lie believed that this malady ” [Enteric Fever] “ did not occur in India, although the type of disease, in some of the cases which he recorded, closely resembled that of Enteric Fever—a fact which he clearlv observed when, after describing Case 32, he added, ‘ While retaining this ease in its original position, I must admit that recent inquiry may suggest that it was true typhoid, not adynamic remittent.’ ” Upon this Dr. More- head remarks, “ At page 337 you rightly interpret me, with this slight exception : I do not know that you quite recognise that it hangs exclusively ou one case (32). Therefore, instead of ‘ the type of some of the cases,’ it should read ‘ one case.’ It was that of a man of the 15th Hussars, quartered for some months in the Town Barracks of Bombay, the sick being sent to the G-eueral Hospital under my care. It was, therefore, if Enteric, a sporadic case in a body of men exposed to the same influences; therefore, taken in its connection, it proves little as to the existence of Enteric in Bombay in those days (1840). Case 35 is another which I am said ” [not by me-—N.C.] “ to have mistaken. A girl, after eight days of febrile symptoms, dies ; at the end of the ileum were three or four small ulcers the size of a split pea; cicatrisation had commenced. Could this lesion be regarded as the result of the eight days’ febrile condition, or could it be regarded otherwise than [as] an antecedent lesion? And yet on these two cases,—in the first of which, when first reported in the Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society, I remarked on the ajipearances as resem- bling those of the Eui'opean Continued in one of its forms, and this six years before Jenner wrote,—it is affirmed that I was in the habit of overlooking Enteric Fever and calling it Remittent. “ Then further note that the case which I first observed in 1856, and which showed me that Enteric Fever was to be admitted, occurred to me before I had seen the Reports of Ewart, Scriven, Goodeve (‘ Clinical Researches,’ second edition, page 160). Could you have stronger evidence that I had not been purblind during the thirty
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