Observations on contagion / by Whitley Stokes.

  • Whitley Stokes
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations on contagion / by Whitley Stokes. 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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    I shall now state some of the objections against the opinion that Typhus is contagious. Without appre- hension that some may say, I am an injudicious day of the number of fevers and relapses that the family had suffered. The family had consisted of the man. and wife and 7 children, the eldest child 24/, the youngest one year old. Every one of the survivors had suffered one fever and one re- lapse before I visited them, and several relapses took place afterwards, although no other individual died. So far I have stated from notes taken at the time; and I can add from recollection, that after the room in which this family resided was whitewashed, no more relapses took place. July 17 of the same year, I attended William Freeman* No. 8, Moss-street, he had had a fever, his wife a fever and relapse, seven children had each had a fever, and four had re- lapsed. About the same time I visited Ryan and Kelly, who lived with their families in a cellar. No. 2l, Aston’s-quay ; a fever successively attacked every member of both families except one, and they had several relapses. I shall now mention a circumstance from memory, which should, I think, impress this truth, that the safety of the first man in the country is endangered by the sickness of the poor : a crowded family, having a shop in Moss-street, was visited by fever; I attended some individuals of the family ; the the progress of the disease was remarkably rapid and severe ; one or two of the family died. Sometime after I attended a child that had a languid recovery from fever ; the most of the family had the disease; they lived on the Quay near Moss-street. I found reason to suppose they had received the Contagion from the family in Moss-street, in which the disease had been so severe; I saw this family which had been fully infected by the wmrst Typhus, employed in making up shcwy liveries, whicli they assured me were intended for the servants of the Lord Lieute- nant of that day. Tlie event happened about seventeen years
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