Cause and effect cure : cause, philosophy, and cure of typhoid and typhus fever, including typhoid enteritis, & other complications : also the philosophy of fevers in general, and how to break any fever in 1 to 5 days, including common continued fever, scarlet fever, measles, & small-pox, including, also, the ready cure of malignant diphtheria and dysentery / by Ephraim Lapham.

  • Lapham, Ephraim.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Cause and effect cure : cause, philosophy, and cure of typhoid and typhus fever, including typhoid enteritis, & other complications : also the philosophy of fevers in general, and how to break any fever in 1 to 5 days, including common continued fever, scarlet fever, measles, & small-pox, including, also, the ready cure of malignant diphtheria and dysentery / by Ephraim Lapham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cause—Negative Stage. cient quantity to cause the disease, without being sensible of any immediate nauseating or other effect sufficient to attract their attention ; while others are sickened and depressed, and perhaps vomit at the time of its inhalation. The strong and sickening fumes that arise from typhoid fever patients, and which are especially present when they are not kept clean, are an indication of the presence, of the infection in considerable in- tensity. The infection is absorbed by the bedding and other clothes about typhoid fever patients, and is given out again so as to produce the disease. This is especially the ease while these clothes are being washed, for the infection arises with the vapor of hot water ui great intensity. Many cases of the disease can be traced directly to this source. Typhoid fever is endemic. That is when it breaks out in a neighborhood, it usually spreads to a number of individuals and then ceases. It spreads because it is contagious, and it ceases as soon as the people of the neighborhood are fully awarA of its contagious character and no longer undergo unnecessary exposure. There are co-operating causes which aid lha infection To de- velop typhoid lever; and the most potent of these is takini cold while the system is under the depressing influence of the in! fectious poison. Also errors in diet, by deranging the digestive function, will act as co-operating causes. In fact anything that will diminish [\\<' action of the vital organs, will co-operate wit| the original infection and help to develope the disease. It is now very obvious why typhoid fever is more prevalent during the irregular weather of tall, winter and spring—be- cause these are the seasons for taking cold. Fear of taking the disease, by depressing the nervous system. favors its development, while a strong and positive will is a powerful counter agent. Typhoid fever, from the first effect of the infection to its ter- mination in convalescence, may be divided into two stages : 1st, Negative, including the incubation and chill. 2nd. Positive, including the fever. negative stage—The incubation of the disease includes that period which elapses from the inception of the infection to the development of the chill which immediately precedes the com- mencement of the positive wfebrttt) stage. The duration of