[Two months of fever duty in Glasgow Royal Infirmary].

  • Gairdner, W. T. (William Tennant), Sir, 1824-1907.
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[1865]
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Credit: [Two months of fever duty in Glasgow Royal Infirmary]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TWO MONTHS OF FEVER DUTY \W \P IN GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY. On taking charge of two fever wards in the Royal Infirmary in the latter part of September, 1864, it occurred to me as desirable, for several reasons, to preserve a detailed record of all the cases under treatment, such as might serve to aid the progress of my own students of the present year, and contribute towards the settlement of certain questions recently under discussion in regard to the course, mortality, and treatment of typhus fever. With the aid of Dr. P. F. Robertson, my excellent assistant in the wards, these observations have now been carried out for a period of more than two months; and although my other occupations have made it impossible for me, having regard to the interests of the patients, to continue attendance in the fever ward#during the winter, I believe that the sum of cases already recorded may be found to yield some results not unworthy of preservation. The necessarily brief abstracts now to be given of the cases under observation have been carefully condensed from the notes in the journals of the Royal Infirmary;* and although it would have been easy, perhaps, by employing additional reporters, to obtain a larger body of minute details for analysis, I preferred to be in a position to state, as I now do, that for every single fact here referred to, either in detail or in abstract, Dr. Robertson and I are directly responsible. To him, indeed, I am indebted more than I can well express, for the care and steadiness with which * The Roman numerals designating the cases in the journals correspond with the Arabic numerals in this paper. J