A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Nathan Smith
Date:
1824
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    Combines with dysente- ry: (aie And with epi- demic catarrh. coexisting in the same person.* It has been stated by Mr. HartyT, that Dysentery _ and Typhous Fever often combine, and I can 1add my testimony to the same fact, for I have of- ten seen a patient taken sick with all the cha- racteristic marks of Dysentery, and after some time the dysenteric symptoms have wholly subsided, while those of Typhus have as to leave no doubt on my mind of the truth of Mr. Harty’s position. | Ihave likewise often seen this disease at- tack persons under the influence of epidemic * Extract of a letter from Daniel Sheldon, M. D., of Litchfield, Conn. ‘In the course of the year 1807, the mumps, hooping-cough and measles were all prevalent in this town, at the same time. The children of the Rev. Dan. Huntington, then a resident here, were subject to these complaints, One of them had the mumps, hoop- ing-cough and measles at the same time ; another, the measles and one of the other complaints, which I do not now, accurately re- member. In each child, the peculiar symptoms and appearances of each disease were exhibited and strongly marked; and, so far as I observed, progressed together, without any mitigation or sus- pension of either. Each of the children, after the abatement of their disorders, had an inflammatory swelling about the neck, of considerable size, which suppurated and was opened.” on t Observations on Dysentery and its combinations, by William Harty, M. B. London, p. 57, et. seq. ey
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