A practical treatise on the most common diseases of the south : exhibiting their peculiar nature, and the corresponding adaptation of treatment : to which is added an appendix, containing some miscellaneous matter, also a glossary explaining the meaning of the technicalities, or medical phrases, used in this work / by Thompson McGown.

  • McGown, Thompson.
Date:
1849
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Credit: A practical treatise on the most common diseases of the south : exhibiting their peculiar nature, and the corresponding adaptation of treatment : to which is added an appendix, containing some miscellaneous matter, also a glossary explaining the meaning of the technicalities, or medical phrases, used in this work / by Thompson McGown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1S47. FEVERS. C3 3 | a >-> x> A ■ o a ■ a. < 4) s s a bo -3 a. V CO O O O > o ft c3 o H Intermittent, 144 117 98 153 140 211 223 74 53 258 380 341 2192 Typhoid, 40 21 50 73 66 20 7 2 1 6 60 111 457 Typhus, - 2 4 107 165 369 57 1 4 100 236 1045 Remittent, 4 1 4 9 17 38 69 64 25 12 18 8 269 Congestive, 1 1 1 2 3 12 10 1 1 2 2 36 Yellow, 6 148 1611 777 219 49 2 2811 Bilious, 2 2 4 7 2 1 9 7 8 42 Pern. Intermittent, 1 2 1 1 5 Adynamic, 1 1 Ephemeral, - 3 2 1 6 12 Catarrhal, 1 4 18 23 Inflammatory, 1 5 Continued, - 1 2 3 193 142 157 346 396 661 521 1756 857 512 622 8346901 Total admissions of all diseases, 11,890. In justice to Dr. Fenner, it should be observed, that he has given the names of fevers as he found them on the books of the hospital, without attempting to rectify the very faulty nomenclature applied to fevers, parti- cularly in the city of New Orleans. From the above tables, it appears there were admit- ted, of all kinds of fever, 19,445 cases—of which 9991 were marked ' Intermittent.1 Add to which 26 marked 1 Pernicious' and 'Malignant Intermittent,1 and 257 mark- ed ' Congestive1 (which is only the American cognomen for the same form of Intermittent fever), and you will have 10,274 Intermittents, or more than one-half of the whole amount, by 1103. 11 Is it not curious to note the gradual increase and decline of intermittent fever at this hospital ? And also the remarkable fact that this form of fever is never en- tirely absent, not even at the zenith of the worst epidemics of the yellow fever? In August, 1847, when there were admitted 1611 cases of yellow fever, there were also ad- mitted 74 cases of intermittent. But examine the statis- tics carefully, and you will discover other curious facts, which I shall not take the time to point out. The following table will show the relative preva-