A history of the epidemic fever, which prevailed in Bridlington, and the neighbourhood, in the years 1818 and 1819 ... / [Humphry Sandwith] ; also, observations in medicine and surgery by Thomas Sandwith.

  • Sandwith, Humphry, 1822-1881.
Date:
1821
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    the animal and vegetable kingdoms, the two classes of objects fall into each other by the most imperceptible gradations, so when we attempt to class the varieties of Fever, we find cases holding a place so exactly intermediate that it is difficult correctly to assign to them their situation. In constructing the Tables, I was embarrassed by a difficulty of this kind in disposing of some of the cases of the present variety. I allude to those, which 1 have denomi- nated “Simple Typhus bordering on the In- flammatory.” These may with so much justice be considered mild cases of the Inflammatory Species, that, on that account, I shall first exhibit the purer examples of Simple Typhus, and then, prior to the history of the strictly Inflammatory Species, subjoin the description of its more aggravated forms, namely, those bordering on Inflammation. The description of this variety will thus form a sort of connec- ting link in the chain, which unites in one genus the pure forms of Simple and Inflamma- tory Typhus. Thirty-four examples of Simple Typhus oc-