On mixed types of fever in relation to the question of the identity or non-identity of typus and typhoid poisons / by Henry Kennedy.

  • Kennedy, Henry.
Date:
1866
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    ON MIXED TYPES OF FEVER, IN RELATION TO THE QUESTION OF THE IDENTITY OR NON¬ IDENTITY OF TYPHUS AND TYPHOID POISONS. Often as the subject of fever has been brought before the Association, there still remain a number of points to be cleared up. Few of them, however, have attracted a more general attention than the one to which I ask your notice this evening. It is the question of the identity or non-identity of the two types of fever known as typhus and typhoid ; in other words, will the one poison produce the two types ? or are they due to separate and distinct poisons ? In England, Ireland, and Scotland* .3,3 Veil a on the Continent, and in America, these questions have been written about again and again, and yet the matter is not settled. It is quite true the London, physicians speak of it as if it were, and I have been credibly informed that any student going before them for examination, and not answering according to their views, will be rejected. This, I must say, is going rather too far with the matter. Not that for a moment 1 question the truthfulness of what they have stated, and more particularly what has been advanced in such an elaborate way by Dr. Jenner, but that I have the strongest convictions they have not seen fever on so large a scale as others, and have not given that consideration to the statements of others to which they were fairly entitled. I have been always at a loss to un-