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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    produced by some weakening power, and was, in effect, a disease of debility. Dr. John Brown enlarged upon this theory, and inculcated a notion in accordance with it, that it should be treated by the most powerful stimulants. He considered bleeding and all other modes of depletion as highly reprehen- sible, because Typhus was placed at the lower end of his scale of diseases, thatis, below the standard of health. ‘This theory was carried into practice by many, and those, who might not have been converts to Brown’s peculiar doctrines, not having sagacity enough to perceive that this debility was the same thing as specific disease, were nevertheless cautious about bleeding in a fever, which they considered Typhus, or possessing what they called a Typhous type. The most approved English authors since Cullen have held this doctrine till within a few years. Very lately several writers* have ventured to recommend bleeding in this disease. * Armstrong, Pritchard, &c. &e. 49 His theory ex- tended by Brown: And for a long time practised upon. Blood-letting recommended by some late authors.
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