A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Nathan Smith
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1824
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    nervous or low typhous fever, merely on ac- count of the presence of a furred tongue, loss of appetite, and some degree of thirst. Se- veral of these patients told me, that they had had one of these “low fevers” every year, forseveral years in succession. It is obvious that those physicians who have such vague and indefinite notions of fever, as to call a stomach affection, Typhus, would be equally liable to call other febrile complaints by the same name, and may imagine they detect its existence in the same individual many times. My own personal experience is strongly in favour of the opinion I have advanced of the non-liability of the same individual, to a se- cond attack of Typhus; for during the twenty- five years since I first attended patients in this disease, and in that time | have visited many hundreds, and have witnessed its pre- valence several times in the same village, I have never known nor heard of its recurrence in the same person. I once attended a numerous family, every member of which was sick of 'Typhus, except two, who escaped at that time ; but two years Cases in sup- port of this opinion. Poe et
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