I. A clinical history of the acute rheumatism, or rheumatick fever. With a correspondence testimony of eight eminent physcians ... To explain the beneficial effects of the Peruvian bark, cinchona ... II. A clinical history of the nodosity of the joints ... / [John Haygarth].

  • Haygarth, John, 1740-1827
Date:
1813
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Credit: I. A clinical history of the acute rheumatism, or rheumatick fever. With a correspondence testimony of eight eminent physcians ... To explain the beneficial effects of the Peruvian bark, cinchona ... II. A clinical history of the nodosity of the joints ... / [John Haygarth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ 2 PREFACE, •* The History of diseases which now solicits the reader’s attention is of an humbler kind, and the benefit which may at Manchester in 1/96; and, since that time, at London, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Dublin, Cork, and many other towns. These Institutions will supply such numerous fads as must at length effedually corred the inveterate and pernicious errors which had universally prevailed. They prove beyond all controversy, that the Regulations deduced from these Principles can exter¬ minate the Small-Pox and the Typhous Fever from every place where they are pundually executed. There cannot be a doubt that exadly the same Regulations would immediately exterminate the Pestilential Fever of the West-Tndies, America, Spain, &c. They might have entirely prevented the late fatal calamity at Gi¬ braltar. They may preserve us from the imminent danger, to which all Europe is at present exposed, of receiving this pestilential poison from the various re¬ gions into which it is widely dispersed. This highly important subjed is falsely thought to be exclusively medical: it maybe fully comprehended by every per¬ son of a clear and philosophical understanding, who will attentively consider it. See the Tracts i. ii. and iv. noted on the last page of this volume ; Dr. Clark's Collection of Papers on Fever Wards at Newcastle; the Reports of the Society for bettering the condition of the Poor, No. xiii.; and Vol. V, App. iii. Proceedings of the Board of Health at Manchester. be