On the occurrence and significance of intestinal haemorrhage in typhoid fever : a thesis for an act for the degree of M.B. in the University of Cambridge / by William Collingridge.

  • Collingridge, William.
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1879
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    ON THE OCCURRENCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF INTESTINAL HAEMORRHAGE IN TYPHOID FEVER. That the danger from Intestinal Haemorrhage in Typhoid Fever depends chiefly on the stage of the disease at which it occurs. The subject of Intestinal Haemorrhage in Typhoid Fever is equally a most important and interesting one, whether it be regarded from a preventive or curative point of view. And this is the more true, because this symptom has been regarded by different authorities as having very varied significance, some looking upon itas an un- important, and even in some cases as almost a desirable occurrence ; while another school (and this is more in accordance with the most recent ideas) has regarded it as in all cases to be dreaded, and in many indeed as a most serious and often a fatal complication. We shall, however, find eminent authorities ranged on both sides of the question. Thus Trousseau is of opinion that it is by no means Trousseau, a serious accident, and so far from possessing the cha- SoT^Voi. ii. racter of danger imputed to it is usually of favourable p' 327' augury. He says that he saw but three cases die B 2