Clinical reports on continued fever based on analyses of one hundred and sixty-four cases : with remarks on the management of continued fever; the identity of typhus and typhoid fever; relapsing fever; diagnosis, etc. : to which is added a memoir on the transportation and diffusion by contagion of typhoid fever, as exemplified in the occurrence of the disease at North Boston, Erie County, N.Y. / by Austin Flint.

  • Flint, Austin, 1812-1886.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Clinical reports on continued fever based on analyses of one hundred and sixty-four cases : with remarks on the management of continued fever; the identity of typhus and typhoid fever; relapsing fever; diagnosis, etc. : to which is added a memoir on the transportation and diffusion by contagion of typhoid fever, as exemplified in the occurrence of the disease at North Boston, Erie County, N.Y. / by Austin Flint. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PREFACE. In submitting the following work to the medical public, it is proper that the reader should be made acquainted with the circumstances which led to its preparation, and with the manner tif its publication. At the annual meeting of the New York State Medical Society in February, 1850, the scientific subject which elicited most discussion was the identity or non- jdentity of the forms of fever now commonly known as Typhus and Typhoid; and a committee was appointed, on which the author was placed as chairman, to collect facts relating to Continued Fever, and report at the next annual meeting. The assignment of this duty led the jiuthor to examine the cases, occurring under his own ol ser\ ation, the histories of which he liad recorded, and finding the number considerable, lie concluded to subject them to numerical analysis; but finding, in the prosecution of this task, that the results would not well admit of Icing orally submitted at the meeting cjf the Society, and also that t y would occu y more space than could be conveniently ap- propriated to them in the annual volume of transactions, they were published in successive numbers of the Buffalo Medical Journal, and subsequently pre. sented in that shape as a report to the Society. The first one hundred and thirty-one pages of the following woi k are occupied by this Report. During the autumn of 18. 0, and the \\iiter of 1850-51, another series of cases passed under observation, at the Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, the institution at which most of tlie cases forming the basis of the report just mentioned had been observed. Desirous of ascertaining how the results of an analysis of this second collection of cases would compare with those of the first analysis, the labor required for that object was undertaken in the €uii mer of 1851, aiid the results published, as before, in successive numbers of the Buffalo Medical Jouinal, under the title of a Second Clinical Report on Continued Fever based on an analybis of forty-eight cases.' As a supplement