Statistical report on the Edinburgh epidemic fever of 1843-44 / by A. Halliday Douglas, M.D.

  • Douglas, A. Halliday (Andrew Halliday), 1819-1908.
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[©1844?]
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Credit: Statistical report on the Edinburgh epidemic fever of 1843-44 / by A. Halliday Douglas, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXTRACTED FROM THE NORTHERN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE FOR NOVEMBER 1844. STATISTICAL REPORT ON THE EDINBURGH EPIDEMIC FEVER OF 1843-41 BY A. HALLIDAY DOUGLAS, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and one of the Physicians to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. Some apology seems necessary for this essay appearing, as it does, so long after the cessation of the epidemic which it proposes to investigate, and after so much has been already written on the subject. I have been anxious, however, to bring it forward, even at this late date, as the relative value of the symptoms and the essential characters of the disease are, in my opinion, to be best demonstrated by numerical analysis—the plan on which the present report has been framed—and I am not aware that it has been adopted by any one of the many writers on the fever who have preceded me. The cases upon which the following calculations have been founded amount to 220 in number. It is from a careful analysis of the reports of these 220 cases that the deductions to be