A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Nathan Smith
Date:
1824
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    This confession is alone sufficient to render the correctness of their previous opinion doubtful. Again, these very physicians, or at least a portion of them, have acknowledged that when the disease is fully formed, that 1s, when the patient has the Typhous Fever, it cannot with any certainty be interrupted or cut off, as they express it. _ Besides, we have to oppose to the opinions of those, who think they often cure this disease in its commencement, the belief of others of quite as much experience, who think they _ have never interrupted its course in a single instance. Indeed, I am myself of this latter opinion, : for during the whole course of my practice I have never been satisfied that I have cut short a single case of Typhus, that! knew to be such; nor have I seen a solitary instance of its hav- ing terminated within fourteen days from its first attack. Cases have occurred to me.often where the distress and sufferings of a patient have been alleviated in less than half that time; but the G Opinion, that the disease can be arrest- ed, probably unfounded. Author’s opi- nion upon the question.
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