An inaugural essay on the bilious typhus which prevailed in Bancker-Street and its vicinity : in the city of New York, in the summer and autumn of 1820 / by Richard Pennell.

  • Pennell, Richard, -1861.
Date:
1821
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Credit: An inaugural essay on the bilious typhus which prevailed in Bancker-Street and its vicinity : in the city of New York, in the summer and autumn of 1820 / by Richard Pennell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    disease was known to terminate at the expiration of the first week*. The bilious form of typhus which prevailed simultaneously in Philadelphia with the Bancker-street and penitentiary fevers, we have also seen terminated, in many instances, between the seventh and tenth days. The author of a very able Review on the Report of the Medical Society Committee, which appeared in the Ameri- can Medical Recorder for April, 1821, has also collected a great number of high authorities to prove that typhus may run a very rapid course. We will avail ourselves of his remarks and references on this point, without deeming it necessary to make an apology for so doing. Sir John Pringle, in speaking of hospital fever, says that when the air is at the highest pitch of malignity, the course of the disease comes to be very rapid* so as to terminate in jive or six days, in death, or a favourable crisis!. Wilson says, typhus sometimes terminates in 10 or 13 davs, or within that periodic Both Drs. Bateman and Rogan, in the works already quoted, relate cases of typhus terminating on the 6th and 3th day of the disease§. Even Dr. Thomas, an author from whom we suspect most of the medical knowledge contained in the Report has been derived, speaks in the following terms: In warm climates it (ty- phus) seldom continues above a week or ten days, if so long\\. Some of the cases of this disease were nearly as rapid in their course as the putrid bilious fever described by Mose- leylT. This has probably induced the author of the re- marks on theMedical Society Committee's Report, toob- * Armstrong on Typhus, &c. Cases, p. 61. t Observations on the Diseases of the Army, &c. p. 304. X A Treatise on Febrile Diseases, by A. P. Wilson, vol. i. p. 137. Am. Ed. $ Bateman on the Contagious Fever, &c. p. 50. Rogan on Epidemic of Ire- land, p. 25. || Practice of Physic, p. 52. 4th American edition, TT See p. 18 of this Essay.