Practical observations on continued fever, especially that form at present existing as an epidemic : with some remarks on the most efficient plans for its suppression / By Robert Graham.

  • Robert Graham
Date:
1818
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    and get more and more mild during their pre¬ valence; so that even the first, the plague, is said to become ultimately a disease of little dan- « ger; yet this mild disease, carried to another country, becomes as virulent as ever. This last circumstance is said to prove that the change is not in the contagion, but in the air. It ap¬ pears to me, however, greatly more wise to say that it is one of the many phenomena we meet with about which we are much too ignorant to be able to reason at all; for it is quite incon¬ ceivable how a permanent change can be effected on the atmosphere, which is in a constant state of migration from one country to another. I must observe, however, that I am taking these facts a good deal on authority, not from my own observation. The present epidemic certainly does not illustrate the gradual amelioration of infec¬ tious disease, by residence among us. We have had it now upwards of five years; and at the moment that I write, (1st April,) though I am unwilling to think that the cases are more se¬ vere than ever, yet I am quite certain that at no time have urgent cases been more frequent; and I am also most certain that they are greatly more frequent now than they were a few weeks ago. But to leave this discussion.—In 1812, the disease re-appeared here in a typhoid form. In the spring of that year I had occasion to know
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