An essay on typhus fever / By Martin Tuomy.

  • Tuomy, Martin.
Date:
1817
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Credit: An essay on typhus fever / By Martin Tuomy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The extensive range of Typhus Fever, and the mortality which frequently marks its course, render it a subject of serious interest to the medical Practitioner and to the Public. In offering a few observations on this important disease, I do not arrogate to myself the merit of having discovered a new remedy; neither do I disapprove of the established modes of cure: what I intend to submit on the practice of the disease, relates to the propriety of acting on principles more defined and certain than those which ordi¬ narily regulate the judgment of the Physician. In other diseases of a febrile nature we are better acquainted with the precise seat of the disease; and hence, in those diseases, our judgment is gene¬ rally sounder, and our prognosis more certain. The bilious remittents of hot climates, the phleg- masiae, and many of the exanthemata, are of this description. Guided by the phaenomena of those diseases, as well as by morbid dissections, the Physician more readily directs his view to the seat and nature of the disease, and to the appropriate cure. In Typhus I conceive those guides are not so
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