The history, diagnosis, and treatment of typhoid and of typhus fever : with an essay on the diagnosis of bilious remittent and of yellow fever / by Elisha Bartlett.

Date:
1842
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Credit: The history, diagnosis, and treatment of typhoid and of typhus fever : with an essay on the diagnosis of bilious remittent and of yellow fever / by Elisha Bartlett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    week. There is no disease, perhaps, of extensive prevalence, which terminates so speedily, except Asiatic cholera, and epidemic puerperal fever. These two diseases, then — yellow fever and remittent fever — differ from each other, in their symptoms ; in their lesions ; in their causes ; in the immunity from a second attack, which is con- ferred by the occurrence of the former ; in the pre- servative powers of acclimation; and in duration. They are separate, individual diseases ; each hav- ing its own characteristics; each, in most cases, easily distinguishable from the other; and each, in its several varieties, requiring its own mode of management. FINIS.