Observations on the typhus, or low contagious fever. And on the means of preventing the production and communication of this disease / By D. Campbell, M.D.

  • Campbell, D. (David) M.D.
Date:
MDCCLXXXV
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Credit: Observations on the typhus, or low contagious fever. And on the means of preventing the production and communication of this disease / By D. Campbell, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | Ce Be a ©, arifing fromthe different deo ec of power «in ie caufe; from different circumftan- «ces of the:climate,or feafon in which they “happen; or from different cir cumftances “< of the perfon aftected.”§ We thall there- the technical term Tyohus ; or call it a. low contagious fever : a finking of the vis vite, feparably connected with it. a certain fubtile fluvium, which, applied to producing fimilar fyznptoms i in them : but varying probably in fome refpetts, for the reafons afligned above. * This Efflivium, is likewife difpofed to adhere, to the cloathing, and furniture of the fick peeen to wool, cotton, filk, furs, fea- § Firft Lines of the practice of Phyfic § LX XXIL * 66 Air. which has been breathed, is made poifonous «¢, to a more intenfe degree by the effluvia from the fick ; «© and what elfe in prifons is offenfive. My reader will .$ jydge of its malignity, when I affure him, that my a meres were in ae firft journeys fo offenfive, that in
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