A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Nathan Smith
Date:
1824
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Credit: A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have elapsed, in which it has not existed in particular sections of country of considerable extent. | When I commenced the practice of physic in 1787, in Cornish, N. H., a town situated on the banks of the Connecticut river, | was in- formed by physicians, as well as the inhabit- ants who had resided many years in that part of the country, that about twenty years previous, a fever, which they had called ner- vous, had prevailed in that vicinity,—had soon after disappeared, and, for the twenty years next succeeding, had not returned ina solita- ry instance. It was eight years after, during which time I visited the sick pretty extensive- ly in that and the adjacent towns, before | saw or heard of a single case of Typhous Fever. I was then called into a family, one member of which had died: of this disease, and another then lay sick of it. Soon after, I left this portion of country, and. was absent for about eighteen months, and was in conse- quence unable to trace the course of the dis- ease; but in 1798, a year after my return, it made its appearance in the village surround- Its appear- ance on Con- necticut river in 1787. Is absent for 20 years. Its reappear- ance in 1798.
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