Statistics and treatment of typhus and typhoid fever : from twelve years' experience gained at the Seraphim Hospital in Stockholm, (1840-1852) / by Magnus Huss ; translated from the Swedish original by Ernst Åberg.
- Magnus Huss
- Date:
- 1855
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Statistics and treatment of typhus and typhoid fever : from twelve years' experience gained at the Seraphim Hospital in Stockholm, (1840-1852) / by Magnus Huss ; translated from the Swedish original by Ernst Åberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![minent in one individual case than in another. It must certainly be allowed, that the difference may sometimes seem great enough to warrant the admission of distinct diseases instead of only varieties of the same, but con- sidering the intermediary forms between the two, and how they often change from one to the other and how they unite, the result must be their classification under the same pathological ]3rocess. It may be very easy to distinguish the two remotest links in the chain, of which the typhus process may be thought to be com- posed, and then to decide if any particular case is one of typhus or typhoid fever; but even the most penetrat- ing discernment may be baffled in attempting to distin- guish one of the intermediary forms, which lie between the two extremes and partake a little of each, and it may perhaps be impossible to make a correct diagnosis. § 4. I will now state the grounds upon which this conclusion is founded. I have gathered them from my own observations and those of other Swedish phy- sicians: that they do not in all respects agree with the observations made in other parts of Europe, may be ascribed to the more limited sphere in which they have been made, together, probably, with the particular and contrasting qualities of climate and other circumstances, which are peculiar to the north in comparison with the south. They agree however for the most part, with the statements of the majority of German writers. § 5. The facts which the epidemics furnish must be mentioned in the first place. I have endeavored to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22322942_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
