Report of the managing committee ... from 1st April, 1844, to 31st March, 1845 [-from 1st April, 1845, to 31st March, 1846]: with the medical report annexed, from 1st January, 1844, to 31st December, 1845 / By George A. Kennedy.

  • Cork Street Fever Hospital, Dublin
Date:
1846
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Credit: Report of the managing committee ... from 1st April, 1844, to 31st March, 1845 [-from 1st April, 1845, to 31st March, 1846]: with the medical report annexed, from 1st January, 1844, to 31st December, 1845 / By George A. Kennedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The author would refer to the different Reports cmana ting from this Institution, detailing the history of the several epidemics, more particularly those that have oc¬ curred since the foundation of this hospital in the year ] 804: also to the extremely valuable and highly inter¬ esting work on the causes of epidemic fevers in Ireland, by Dr. Harty of this city.* It has been considered by many that when indivi¬ duals have suffered from the more severe forms of Typhus, accompanied by an eruption of petecchige, those indi¬ viduals derive an immunity not only from a second attack of the typhoid fever, but also a considerable de¬ gree of exemption from the eruptive fevers, as for example, Rubeola and Scarlatina: but I have elsewhere stated, that there is no ground for this assertion, as ex¬ tensive observation has led me to think there is no such security; and since the publication of my last report, abundant proofs to the contrary have occurred. I shall on the present occasion add one remarkable instance, which was noted by me at the time. A girl named Stafford, aged ten years, was admitted on the 12tli May, 1840, in continued fever, during the progress of which, an extensive crop of petecchige was well developed. She was discharged convalescent on the 24th of June. On the 8th of November this patient was re-admitted labouring under Scarlatina, and dismissed convalescent on the 20th of the same month. The second variety of fever, to which I have given the name of Inflammatory, prevailed chiefly in January and December, 1844, and also in March and April, 1845. It was distinguished from the preceding by the absence of the great prostration of strength, of somno¬ lency, of petecchiaa, and of any marked disturbance of * Historic Sketch of the Causes, Progress, Extent and Mortality of the Contagious Eever epidemic in Ireland during the years 1817, 1818, and 1819: By William Iiarty, M.B. Dublin, 1820.
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