Notes on epidemics : for the use of the public /cby Francis Edmund Anstie.

  • Francis E. Anstie
Date:
1866
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Credit: Notes on epidemics : for the use of the public /cby Francis Edmund Anstie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. Ignorance of the public, a source at once of unnecessary panic, and of mischievous neglect with regard to epidemic diseases—Hssentially preventable character of these maladies—Definition of the phrase ‘‘ Epi- demic Disease” —List of British epidemics—General causes of epidemic disease— Mortality from epidemic diseases in London — Premonitory symptoms of epidemic diseases, with remarks on the use of the thermometer for the purposes of diagnosis. Page 11 CHAPTER IL FEVERS OF DESTITUTION—RELAPSING FEVER AND TYPHUS. Relapsing fever: its genesis simply from circumstances of destitution; its spread by contagion; its early symptoms. Typhus fever; caused by destitution plus overcrowding in dwellings; its intense con- tagiousness within a small area; the chief means of its propagation ; pre-eminently a disease of cities ; its early symptoms . : : : . Page 36 CHAPTER III. EPIDEMIC DISEASES DEPENDENT ON INSANITARY CON- DITIONS INDEPENDENT OF DESTITUTION —TYPHOID FEVER, CHOLERA, AND EPIDEMIC DIARRH@A. Typhoid fever, formerly confounded with typhus; really quite distinct—Predisposing causes—Exciting causes, chiefly arising from defects of drainage—Early symptoms of typhoid. Asiatic cholera: an oppro- brium of medicine, but really more comprehensible,
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