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

  • Charles Murchison
Date:
[1858]
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Credit: Remarks on the changes which are supposed to have taken place in the type of continued fever / by Charles Murchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From this table it would appear, that out of 441 cases of relapsing fever treated in the London Fever Hospital, during the last ten years, only 2i per cent, have died, or about 1 in 40. Tyi)luis and enteric fever (typhoid fever or dothinenteritis) pre- sent a striking contrast in this respect to the relapsing fever, as will be apparent from Table II., which shows the rate of mortality from each of these fevers in the London Fever Hospital, during the last ten years. TABLE II. Mortality from Typhus and Enteric Fever in the London Fever Hospital in Ten Years. Typhus. Enteric Fever. Tears. No. of Cases. Deaths. Mortality Per Cent. No. of Cases. Deaths. Mortality Per Cent. 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 526 155 130 68 204 408 337 342 1062 274 106 39 24 6 24 90 68 82 207 69 20-15 2516 1846 8-82 11-76 22-06 20-18 24- 19-49 25-18 152 138 137 234 140 211 228 217 149 214 41 26 24 30 25 59 44 31 23 30 26- 97 18- 84 17-51 12-82 17-85 27- 96 19- 3 14- 28 15- 43 14-02 Total, 3506 715 20-39 1820 333 18-29 Deducting cases fatal within 24 hours > after admission, ) 3457 668 19-32 1806 319 17-66 Deducting cases fatal ) within 48 hours, ) 391 600 17-69 1791 304 1697 Moreover, any one who will take the trouble of studying the his- torical records of fever, will find that the true typhus, with a measly eruption, has invariably been productive of a far greater mortality than relapsing fever, and that at no period has it derived benefit from copious depiction. Among other arguments in favour of blood-letting in the epidemic of 1817-20, it was urged tliat, in many cases, its practice was fol- lowed by the most sudden and marked improvement in the general symptoms. Dr Welsh speaks of it as having cut short the disease
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