Remarks on irritative fever, commonly called the Plymouth dock-yard disease; with Mr. Dryden's detailed account of the fatal cases, including that of the lamented surgeon, Dr. [James] Bell / [John Butter].

  • Butter, John, 1791-1877.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Remarks on irritative fever, commonly called the Plymouth dock-yard disease; with Mr. Dryden's detailed account of the fatal cases, including that of the lamented surgeon, Dr. [James] Bell / [John Butter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • * * The enquiries, made from distant places, led me at last to wait on Mr. Dhyden, the Assistant Surgeon, who by this time had be¬ come the principal medical officer in the Establishment, and who frankly and fully communicated to me the most authentic infor¬ mation respecting the disease ; kindly shew¬ ing to me also the last case which occurred. Considering the subject to be of great im¬ portance to the Medical Profession, inasmuch as such a series of cases might not again oc¬ cur, and filling at the same time the office of Secretary to the Western Medical and Chirur- gical Society*, of which I have been since * No efforts have been heretofore made, so far as I am » aware, previous to the institution of this Society, to collect to¬ gether such useful facts and interesting histories, as must frequently occur in a medical practice, extended amongst a population advancing towards 80,000 persons. This Society has, therefore, been established for a double purpose— 1st. In order to procure the newest medical information published in the Journals, &c. of this country : 2dly and principally, with the view of collecting local intelli¬ gence worthy of record. The last of these two objects can only be promoted in pro¬ portion to the zeal and assiduity evinced by its members, for the acquirement of knowledge and the good of science. Consider¬ able progress has been, however, made in furtherance of this