An inaugural dissertation on the disease termed petechial, or spotted fever : submitted to the Examining Committee of the Medical Society of Connecticut, for the county of Hartford / by Nathan Strong, Jun. of Hartford.

  • Strong, Nathan, 1781-1837.
Date:
1810
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the disease termed petechial, or spotted fever : submitted to the Examining Committee of the Medical Society of Connecticut, for the county of Hartford / by Nathan Strong, Jun. of Hartford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A DISSERTATION ON THE PETECHIAL FEVER. To the Committee of the Medical Society of Connecticut, for the County of Hartford : Gentlemen, Understanding that the subject of the disserta- tion, which the laws of the Medical Society require to be exhibited to the examining Committee, is left to the option of the writer : it is proposed, to offer some re- marks upon the late epidemic, distinguished by the name of the Petechial or Spotted Fever. Trusting to the candour of the Committee, who well know the difficul- ties, under which a young man who has but just entered the field of medical research, must necessarily labour; he has no doubt, that they will make every reasonable allowance, for the imperfection of his performance; and that the chastening rod of criticism, which they will have abundant reason to apply, will be wielded with a gentle hand. The disease of which we are now to treat, and which has justly excited much alarm in a number of towns in this state, made the first appearance, of which we have any account, in the town of Medfield, state of Massa- chusetts, in the month of March 1806. A short ac- count of it was given to the public, by Drs. Danielson and Mann. In the same month, of the year 1807, it appeared in the city of Hartford, and soon after in the town of Windsor. From that time to the present, it has made its appearance, at various times, and in vari- ous places, in the counties of Hartford and Litchfield : cases have occurred in almost every month of the year ; but it has generally been most prevalent, in the last