Medical report of the House of Recovery and Fever Hospital, Cork-Street, Dublin, for two years, from 1st of January, 1844, to 31st of December, 1845 / by George A. Kennedy.

  • Cork Fever Hospital (Dublin, Ireland)
Date:
1846
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Credit: Medical report of the House of Recovery and Fever Hospital, Cork-Street, Dublin, for two years, from 1st of January, 1844, to 31st of December, 1845 / by George A. Kennedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The author would refer to the different Reports emana ting from this Institution, detailing the history of the several epidemics, more particularly those that have oc- curred since the foundation of this hospital in the year 1804: also to the extremely valuable and highly inter- esting work on the causes of epidemic fevers in Ireland, by Dr. Harty of this city.* It has been considered by many that when indivi- duals have suffered from the more severe forms of Typhus, accompanied by an eruption of petecchiae, those indi- viduals derive an immunity not only from a second attack of the typhoid fever, but also a considerable de- gree of exemption from the eruptive fevers, as for example, Rubeola and Scarlatina: but I have elsewhere stated, that there is no ground for this assertion, as ex- tensive observation has led me to think there is no such security; and since the publication of my last report, abundant proofs to the contrary have occurred. I shall on the present occasion add one remarkable instance, which was noted by me at the time. A girl named Stafford, aged ten years, was admitted on the 12th May, 1840, in continued fever, during the progress of which, an extensive crop of petecchiae was well developed. She was discharged convalescent on the 24tli of June. On the 8th of November this patient was re-admitted labouring under Scarlatina, and dismissed convalescent on the 20th of the same month. The second variety of fever, to which I have given the name of Inflammatory, prevailed chiefly in January and December, 1844, and also in March and April, 1845. It was distinguished from the preceding by the absence of the great prostration of strength, of somno- lency, of petecchiae, and of any marked disturbance of * Historic Sketcli of the Causes, Progress, Extent and Mortality of the Contagious Eever epidemic in Ireland during the years 1817, 1818, and 1819: By William Harty, M.B. Dublin, 1820.