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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    ? remains a week or more in such a situation that the practitioner is unable to decide, whe- ther he is mending or failing. If the ath alae of Typhous Fever we have just laid down, be correct, if it arises from a specific cause and has a natural termination, it may be a question, how far we are to at- tempt a cure of it, or 1f we possess the power, whether we can with propriety cut it off-in its commencement and by art prevent its run- ning its course. Physicians in this country are divided in opinion on this subject, some imagine they have often cured it immediately after its first attack, nipped it in the bud, as they say, while you they are’ not certain they have ever ar- rested this disease by medicine. I confess the subject is a difficult one, and that it is next to impossible to demonstrate _ the truth of either the positive or negative side of the question, and as absolutely so to those who have already made up their opinions on ie a Question how far we should interfere in its treatment. Physicians di vided upon the point.
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