A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Nathan Smith
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1824
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Credit: A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the subject, as to that still larger class, who have yet to learn to doubt their own skill andl mistrust the powers of medicine. | When a person is taken unwell, has a pain in the head, takes medicine, and the next day recovers, if the attending physician is dispos- ed to consider it a case of Typhous F ever, we can bring no testimony to prove that he would not have had the disease, had he not taken _ the remedy. In such cases we can only. make the truth probable, and what appears so to one, may ‘not to another. Difficult to de- ee ; dap, from tue In the first place, Typhus in its commence- early symp- toms of ly- phus resem- bling those of With other febrile affections, that is not easy other fevers. ment exhibits so many symptoms in common for any one, especially the unexperienced, to determine whether the disease is truly Ty- phous or not; even those, who hold to the opi- nion that they often cure it suddenly, have = ele to me that they cannot distinguish it from other febrile affections upon its first attack, and never positively, till the disease has, in a considerable degree, developed itself. we
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