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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    of its conta- giousness. . Second case. CONTAGIOUSNESS. OF TYPHUS. happens, that one or more individuals ina family will escape an attack, though equally exposed as those who suffer from it. A few instances, which have fallen under my own observation, would alone be sufficient to determine the question. A young man, a pupil of mine, was attacked with the Typhous Fever, from which he reco- vered with difficulty. Some of his family, who lived about forty miles distant, came and took care of him during his sickness. Upon his recovery, they returned home in good health, but soon after sickened with the same disease, and communicated it to others, who had not been exposed in the first instance. From this, it spread to numerous other fami- lies in the vicinity, who had been exposed to the contagion. In the whole town where this occurred, there had been no case of Typhous Fever for many years, till brought there by the circumstances above related. During the prevalence of the Typhous Fever in Thetford, (Vt.) a woman went there from Chelsea, about ten miles distant, to visit and administer to a sister sick of this disease.
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