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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    of the body higher, in consequence of the loss of a pound of blood. Y | As hemorrhage sometimes makes its ap- Supposed to pearance in T'yphous Fever, and generally mortage. at about the height of the disease; the advo- cates for indiscriminate bleeding have ima- gined that taking blood early in the disease will prevent its occurrence. Upon this sub- ject little need be said, since it is next to im- possible to disprove the assertion; for my own part, I have never seen any evidence of its truth. | In the autumn of 1812, Professor Perkins, now of New-York, and myself, attended be- tween fifty and sixty cases of Typhus in the vicinity of Dartmouth College, and many of them students of that institution. Of the whole number, which came under Case. our care, one only was bled, and that on ac- count of a sense of fulness in the head, of which he complained. This patient had afterwards a hemorrhage from the bowels, which was pretty profuse, but he eventually recovered. H
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