Observations on the typhus, or, low contagious fever, and on the means of preventing the production and communication of this disease / By D. Campbell, M.D.

  • Campbell, D. (David)
Date:
1785
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    After all, there feems to be fomething in the effect of contagion, and the other caufes which produce this fever, fuperadded to that debility, which f© evidently occurs, and the obviating of which, is, at prefent, the great objeftofourpradtice: becaufeif it adted mere- ly by producing a certain degree of debility, in the fvffem, it would naturally follow, that whenever debility was induced to that par- ticular degree, by any means; that the difeafe in queftion,in one ftate or other,fhould en- fue. This however, we know is not the cafe; and befides upon this principle, recovery would be impoffible, as no degree of debility could be more extreme, than that which was fometimes feen, when the fever left the pa- tient ; and yet nothing, that could be deno- minated difeafe, then exifted. It is probable, (and the conjecture is at lead; harmlefs,) that the volatile fomething which iffues from the difeafed bodies, or infected cloaths, and whatever elfe gives rife to this fever, is ab- forbcd into the fyftem; where it continues to act upon the irritable and mufcular fibres, by deferoying their tone, and perhaps circu- lates with the fluids, during the courfe of the