An essay on the diagnosis between erysipelas, phlegmon, and erythema : with an appendix, touching the probable nature of puerperal fever / by George Hume Weatherhead.

  • George Weatherhead
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1819
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Credit: An essay on the diagnosis between erysipelas, phlegmon, and erythema : with an appendix, touching the probable nature of puerperal fever / by George Hume Weatherhead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and thus communicated from one person to another. Amongst the numerous medical works that daily crowd the counters of the bookseller, few have appeared, which have astonished the me- dical world more than that of Dr. Bancroft on the Yellow Fever; the patient research it evinces, the mathematical mode of reasoning it exam- plifies, the conviction it flashes on the mind of the candid and unprejudiced, altogether afford a truly admirable specimen of what medical logic ought to be. According to this highly respectable author's views of contagion, erysi- pelas, like other infectious complaints, must invariably be, rebus faventibus, a contagious disease, or not at all so. The sporadic occur- rence of erysipelas is not more unaccountable than that of typhus, and many other diseases, whose infectious nature is unquestionable. There are some contagions so weak, that they require both condensation and accumulation, independent of a state of body susceptible of
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