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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    Position of the patient. w Moral princi- ple sometimes affected. particularly in bad cases, it becomes guttural, The patient is generally inclined to lie on his back, and he insensibly slides down to- wards the foot of the bed. It has appeared to me in some instances that the moral principle has been affected. One patient in particular, who had been ex- tremely sick with this disease, after his re- covery had a strong propensity to steal, and did in effect take some articles of clothing from a young man to whom he was under great obligations for the care he had taken The pulse | quickened— stole a horse and some money, was detected, and punished. I took some pains to inquire into the young man’s former character, and found it good, and that his family were re- spectable. | The symptoms of 'Typhus indicating a dis- turbance of the functions of the circulatory system are an increased frequency of the mencement of the disease.
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