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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    logy. All, however, agree, I believe, in con- sidering it as being generally of a typhoid na- ture. That benefit has resulted from the artificial division of fevers into synocha and typhus, I believe no intelligent physician will deny. But this division alone will not satisfy either the medical philosopher or the practical physician. These wish to see the division carried still fur- ther. There should be as many species and varieties of diseases, in nosological arrangement, as there are presented to us in the great book of nature. It appears to me that Dr. Cullen's distribution of typhus into two species only, viz. Typhus icterodes, and typhus petechialis, is too limited. This last, it is true, he sub- divides into twp varieties, viz. Typhus mitior, and typhus gravior. I shall endeavour to show that this mode of arranging fevers will admit of improvement. There is danger of simplifying too much in the nosological arrangement of dis- orders. Some physicians would consider the cynanche maligna and scarlatina as one com- plaint, and so dispose of it in a system of no- sology. But I think it better to designate them as distinct diseases, because nature so presents them to our view. They may, in the relation- ship of diseases, be brothers. But for the pur- pose of medical treatment, it is said, they may be regarded as one ; but, will the taylor mea- sure one brother for the purpose of cutting a coat for the other? Or will the physician be less accurate than the taylor? Pestilential fe-