On a prolonged case of enteric fever : with remarks especially with reference to aberrant course of temperature / by Robeert Park.

  • Park, Robert.
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[1883]
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    Reprinted from the “ Glasgow Medical Journal” for July, 1883.] ON A PROLONGED CASE OF ENTERIC FEVER; WITH REMARKS ESPECIALLY WITH REFERENCE TO ABERRANT COURSE OF TEMPERATURE.* By ROBERT PARK, M.D., &c., &c., Medical Officer for Third and Fourth Districts of City Parish, Glasgow; and Physician for Diseases of Women and Children, at Anderson’s College Dispensary, Glasgow. J. C. M., set. 43 years, single, first consulted me in reference to the illness of which I am about to give details on the 19th August, 1882. He is a man of medium height (5 ft. 9 in.), and was, at the date mentioned, about 11J stones weight. Previous History.—This may be epitomised shortly thus:— After a prolonged course of medicinal treatment, and a resi¬ dence at Harrogate, and treatment there, he was pronounced well early in 1878 by his physician, Dr. Moore, of the enthetic malady from which he had been suffering. Not satisfied with this, however, he desired to be further under observation and treatment; and although there was really nothing wrong with him beyond some degree of impotence, and the mental impression that his blood was not quite pure, I placed him on a course of iodide of potassium and iron, which was continued for six months. After this he was not very regular in his modus vivendi, and was only recalled to habits of temperance by an attack of delirium tremens, for which I attended him, and from which * The substance of this paper was read before the Glasgow Southern Medical Society, at its meeting, 8th March.