A treatise on a malignant epidemic, commonly called spotted fever : interspersed with remarks on the nature of fever in general, &c ; and an appendix, in which is republished a number of essays written by different authors on this epidemic,with the addition of original notes : containing also a few original and selected cases, with clinical remarks / by Elisha North.

  • North, Elisha, 1771-1843.
Date:
1811
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Credit: A treatise on a malignant epidemic, commonly called spotted fever : interspersed with remarks on the nature of fever in general, &c ; and an appendix, in which is republished a number of essays written by different authors on this epidemic,with the addition of original notes : containing also a few original and selected cases, with clinical remarks / by Elisha North. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is true, a few short letters and newspaper essays have been published, but these have been designed to give only a suc- cinct account of the disease in the par- ticular neighbourhood of the physicians who have written them. Besides these, an Inaugural Dissertation has been pub- lished by a young physician in Hartford. It will be easily perceived that such pub- lications must necessarily have a very li- mited circulation, and, from their nature, be very liable to be lost. All those who have written on this disease, consider it as a new one, differing, in many respects, from any disease which they ever wit- nessed; still it resembles, in some respects, diseases with which they are acquainted. That a treatise calculated to give a more extensive account of this epidemic, and to preserve and bring into one view those things which have already been published on this subject, would be ac- ceptable to the public, cannot, I think, be doubted. Should this epidemic con- tinue to prevail, and to extend its ravages over a large extent of our country, such