Remarks on the changes which are supposed to have taken place in the type of continued fever / by Charles Murchison.

  • Murchison, Charles, 1830-1879.
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[1858]
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    REMARKS ON THE HANGES WHICH ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE TAKEN PLAGE IN THE TYPE OF CONTINUED FEVER By CHARLES MURCHISON, M.D., L.E.C.P., ASSISTANT THTSICIAN TO KISQ'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL AUD TO THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL. [rEPBINTED VBOM the EDINBUBGn MEDICAL JOUBNAL, AUGUST 1868.] r is not my object, in this paper, to enter into any discussion concern- ig the general question of changes of type in disease. I merely wish • call attention to one or two circumstances, which, in my opinion, lUst modify in a very great degree the conclusions which have been rawn by Dr Christison, in a very valuable paper read by him 2fore the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, and published the Edinburgh Medical Journal for January of the present year. One of the main arguments, if not the principal one, urged by )r Christison in favour of a change in the type of fever is, that in le epidemic of 1817-19, the practice of bleeding largely, so far om being injurious, as it would undoubtedly be in the fever which late years has been most prevalent, was followed by the most vourable results. Thus he remarks, after speaking of drawino- a legitimate allowance of thirty ounces (of blood) in all: And t it be remembered that we did by no means slay our patients by ich blood-thirstiness. On the contrary, the mortality from the hole forms of fever collectively in that epidemic, did not exceed 1 22 at any period, and was reduced to 1 in 30 as the epidemic iread, and the remedy became more and more familiar. ^ It is well lown, however, and acknowledged by Dr Christison himself, that e fever which characterised this epidemic was that which is now nnhar to many members of the profession under the designation Kelapsmg Fever, and which was probably included in the synocha ' Edwhnnih Medical Journal, January 10.58, ]). 687.