Contributions to the etiology of continued fever, or, An investigation of various causes which influence the prevalence and mortality of its different forms / by Charles Murchison.

  • Murchison, Charles, 1830-1879.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Contributions to the etiology of continued fever, or, An investigation of various causes which influence the prevalence and mortality of its different forms / by Charles Murchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ETIOLOGY OE CONTINUED EEVER: OR AN INVESTIGATION OF VARIOUS CAUSES WHICH INFLUENCE THE PREVALENCE AND MORTALITY OF ITS DIFFERENT FORMS. BY CHARLES MURCHISON, M.D.Edin., L.R.C.P., ASSISTANT-PHYSICIAN TO KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, AND TO THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL. Received Marcli 30th.—Read April 27th, 1858. Among the greatest benefits which medicine has conferred upon the human race are, undoubtedly, those which have reference to the prevention of disease. The truth of the adage, “ Prevention is better than cure,” is now fully recognised, as shown by the increased attention bestowed upon the subject of hygiene. At the present day, then, I need offer no arguments in proof of the importance of an investigation into the causes influencing the prevalence and mortality of a disease, which, during the last twenty years, has destroyed upwards of 350,000 of the population of England and Wales, and the annual mortality from which, in London alone, averages about 2500. I purpose, in this essay, not only to investigate the causes which influence the prevalence and mortality of continued