A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Nathan Smith
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1824
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    Typhus is sometimes connected with local in- flammation. Has a natural termination. Although I have practised physic and sur- gery for thirty-five years pretty extensively in all the New-England states, except Rhode- Island, and have lived in New-Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut and Maine, I have never witnessed a single case of continued fever, except Typhus, which was not either the effect of contagion, as the small-pox, measles, &c. or evidently connected with lo- cal inflammation, and dependant upon it. I do not mean to assert that Typhus is never connected with local inflammation; indeed [ know that the reverse of this has been the opinion of some men of great obser- vation, and that there are many phenomena, which serve to corroborate it; but -if so, it differs essentially from that kind of sympa- thetic fever, attendant on phlegmonic inflam- mation, and on attentive examination, this dif- ference will be sufficiently obvious. | ~ eases, has a natural termination, and if it does not end fatally when uninterfered with, it gradually exhausts itself and disappears ;
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