Small-pox and its diffusion / by Alexander Collie.

  • Collie, Alexander.
Date:
1912
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    precautions, no medical man need carry infectious disease. Here are the grounds of this opinion. About thirty years, almost the whole of the writer's professional life, were passed in general and in special hospitals, from the time that it commenced as clinical clerk in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, about the year i860, until it ended in the Eastern Hospitals, about the year 1891. During that period over 30,000 persons were treated by him, one way or another. Of these over 25,000 were cases of infectious disease, the infectious fevers, typhus fever, enteric fever, scarlet fever, cholera, diphtheria, small-pox, and measles, along with 3,000 cases of other diseases, mostly not infectious, Here is a list of them : Pneumonia, rheumatism, phthisis, mania, bronchitis, pericarditis, pleuritis, nil, tuberculosis, meningitis, jaundice, colic, morbus cordis, cystitis, syphilis, lead poisoning, erysipelas, pyaemia, glanders, puerperal fever, carcinoma uteri, insanity, hysteria, skin disease, various malignant pustule (?), dys- pepsia, dysmenorrhea, dementia, gastritis, senile gan- grene, melancholia, acute mania, alcoholism, empyema, retention of urine, appendicitis, Meniere's disease, starva- tion, atropine poisoning, abdominal tumour, phlegmasia dolens, spinal disease, mumps, spinal caries, eczema, cancer of pylorus, periostitis, sore throat, dropsy, vaginitis, soften- ing of brain, atrophy. of optic nerve, delirium tremens, scabies, metritis, cerebral haemorrhage, morbus renum, dysentery, cerebral abscess, cerebrospinal meningitis, copaiba rash (sent by a distinguished fellow from a hospital which thought itself chic even ires chic. Humanum est en are holds good even for fellows ! ), herpes, whoop- ing-cough, cirrhosis, hip and spine disease, acne, debility, purpura, lichen, etc. He calculates to have made very many thousands of visits—a few thousands one way or the other does not in the least matter; but to the best of his knowledge and belief, he never carried any infectious disease, nor did any one of the other diseases in his charge treated under the same administration with infectious disease contract any one of them.