A historical and physical sketch of a malignant epidemick, prevalent in Maryland, and some other states, within the last few years : with a brief notice of some opinions which have been published on its nature and treatment.

  • Wright, Thomas H., -1856?
Date:
1815
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Credit: A historical and physical sketch of a malignant epidemick, prevalent in Maryland, and some other states, within the last few years : with a brief notice of some opinions which have been published on its nature and treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    an indiscriminating and almost exterminating sword. This historick sketch has been premised to facilitate a more connected estimate of the disease in separate situations, and at different periods. It will be satisfactory, if not useful, to arrive at all possible certainty, in regard to the identity of a disease whose novelty of cha- racter, and unparalleled controul over health and life, has been almost equally sensible, wherever it appeared, yet Avhose real nature, and proper treatment, has been and still is, a subject of opposite and irreconcilable senti- ment among those who hold officially, a claim to its investigation and conduct. This disease (its cause properly) has been thought irregularly migratory; penetrating slowly into different districts, and pursuing no determinate direction. An eccentrick vagrant, rather than a systematick traveller. Its gene- ral tendency however has been from north north-west, to south south-east.* Perhaps in- *If the southern and northern disease be generical- ly the same, it is of no importance whether the cause of the first, be identically the same with that of the latter, or only a similar one. A cause transferred, or a cause locally created.