Pneumonia and typhoid fever : a study.

  • Page, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1840-
Date:
1891
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Credit: Pneumonia and typhoid fever : a study. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The first edition of this pamphlet was noticed by the Boston Sunday Globe, as follows: [From the Boston Sunday Globe, May to, iSgr.l Pneumonia and Typhoid Fever; a Study. If the author of this little pamphlet had used the term an expose instead of *' a study, it would have been quite as appro- priate. He has quoted freely from the private utterances of physi- cians of the highest repute facts that were never designed for the ears of the public, — which does not take much interest in medical literature in general,—and in giving us the cream of the best thought of the foremost medical men in this country and Europe, backed up by his own most emphatic indorsement, he has certainly earned the gratitude of all who employ or ever expect to employ a family physician, if not that of the doctors themselves. These, however, cannot afford to miss reading this caustic little monogram. If typhoid fever is really a readily curable disease, and a certain method of treatment will cure nearly every case (that has not been made incurable by neglect or bad treatment), while the usual treat- ment is fatal to the extent of at least one fourth of all cases, it is high time that the public be made aware of the fact, for it means simply this: That in every i,ooo deaths from this disease over 900 are due to ignorance on the part of the medical attendants. The system recommended is, we are told, practised by the most famous physicians of Germany, and here and there one in this country, including, of course, the author, who, while reading old- school, routine practitioners a somewhat humiliating lesson, makes no claim to exclusive knowledge, but simply the desire to speed a much-needed reform. [Pneumonia and Typhoid Fever; a Study. Dr. Charles E. Page. Boston: Damrell & Upham. Pp.28. Paper, 25c.