Practical observations on the action of morbid sympathies : as included in the pathology of certain diseases; in a series of letters to his son, on his leaving the University of Edinburgh, in the year 1809 / By Andrew Wilson, M.D. Kelso.

  • Wilson, Andrew, M.D.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Practical observations on the action of morbid sympathies : as included in the pathology of certain diseases; in a series of letters to his son, on his leaving the University of Edinburgh, in the year 1809 / By Andrew Wilson, M.D. Kelso. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pathology of Typhus Fever. In the definition given of typhus, or putrid tending fever, it is said to be a. contagious disease, characterised by great prostration of strength, senses much im- paired ; quick, weak, small pulse, and heat moderate. Very exact and minute histories are also given of the long list of symptoms which appear in succession through the whole course of the disease. But then these descriptions, you will find, amount in reality to little more than a list of an undiscriminated mass of appearances, from which very little in- formation can be derived with respect to that important object, which’ ought to arise out of these distinguishing signs, viz. A ratio symptomatum, leading to a mode of management depending upon it. | iixperience has shown, that a person