Observations on the cure and prevention of the contagious fever now prevalent in the City of Edinburgh and its environs; with an inquiry in the nature and origin of the specific poison producing the various forms of this disease ... / [John Yule].

  • Yule, John.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations on the cure and prevention of the contagious fever now prevalent in the City of Edinburgh and its environs; with an inquiry in the nature and origin of the specific poison producing the various forms of this disease ... / [John Yule]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    even death having been occasioned by approaching too nearly the putrefying human body, especially on the rupture of the abdomen ; and thus the too common practice of late interment, especially of those dying of contagious fevers, and burying the dead in the centre of cities, or in churches, cannot be too strongly condemned. That these dire effects are not exclusively produced by the gases extricated during putrefaction, is highly pro¬ bable, from the instances on record, of the most deadly form of disease being occasioned by ac¬ cidental inoculation of the sanies of the putrid human body into wounds, during dissection* NECESSITY OF DESTROYING THE ORIGINAL SOUR¬ CES OF THIS POISON.-MEANS SIMPLE* 1. On the whole, then, it appears that Typhus fever (tvQug9 rv(pa ardeo) is a disease originating from the re-absorption of a specific poison expel¬ led from the human body, even in a state of health, allowed to accumulate not only in jails, ships, hospitals, Sec. but in the close and crowded dwellings of the people. Of its precise nature, as1 of' many other bodies, we know nothing but from B 4
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