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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    Vers, the plague, cynanche maligna, scarlatina, and our late spotted fever, undoubtedly belong to one family of diseases. But still, each of these several disorders is shaded and distin- guished by its own peculiar complexion. The common typhus fever, which has been treated of by a variety of practical authors, un- der the different names of nervous fever, jail fever, hospital fever, and also all those fevers which are generated in the poor and filthy habi- tations of cities, and frequently in country places, particularly in new settlements, is a different disease from that kind of fever, to which the epithet malignant has been applied by practical authors. Dr. Huxham certainly considered himself as treating of a different kind or species of fever, under the name of the putrid malignant fever, from the one he had previously treated of, under the name of the slow nervous fever. This last resembles the common typhus; otherwise he could not have made the following observations, viz. I am very sensible, the word malignant, as applied to fevers, hath of late years fallen into very great disrepute, and probably it hath often been made use of, to cover ignorance or magnify a cure. But there is really a foundation in na- ture for such an appellation, at least for some word that may distinguish such a disease as I have now been describing, from a common in- flammatory fever; (or, he might have added, a common nervous, or what is now called ty- phus fever;) indeed, the very term in flam-