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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    DISEASES MISTAKEN FOR TYPHUS. catarrh, and the symptoms of both diseases continue perfectly evident for some time. From the view of this subject above taken, and the facts there stated, | consider T'yphous Fever a disease sut generis, arising from a spe- cific cause, and that cause contagion, and sel- dom affecting the same person more than once. The diseases with which it is liable to be canmunded: and for which it is often mista- ken, are pure unmixed catarrhal fever, the acute stomach complaints above referred to, and those bilious affections, which take place in the latter part of summer, and the com- mencement of autumn. Ihave seen many cases of all these affec- tions, which have been considered and treat- ed as Typhus, by those who consider it as a mere state of fever, and not as a distinct disease, dependant on a specific cause. It will be observed, that simple inflamma- tory fever is not mentioned as one of the dis- eases with which it may be confounded. The reason is, that no such disease has ever fallen under my observation. D 21 Diseases witl: which it is lia- ble to be con- founded. Observation on simple. in- flammatory fever.
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