Lectures on the acute specific diseases : being the Gulstonian lectures, delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, March, 1853 / by William Jenner, M.D.

  • Jenner, William, Sir, 1815-1898.
Date:
1853
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    with measles rather than with typhoid fever or relapsing fever; while the symptomatological affinity of relapsing fever is with the class of diseases in which intermittent fever ranks, rather than with typhus fever or typhoid fever, although etiologically its place is among the acute specific diseases. In my next lecture, I propose to consider the essential and determining causes of the deviations from their types of par- ticular cases of the acute specific diseases; and to give a brief sketch of some of the varieties thus produced. that of sepomia, to express the disease in question. Nervous fever was the old English name. Many of the German and some English writers have adopted the term typhus abdominalis ; to this term I object strongly, because, especially, it involves a theory concerning the nature of the disease maintained by no sound authority.