A succinct account of the contagious fever of this country, exemplified in the epidemic now prevailing in London; with the appropriate method of treatment as practised in the House of Recovery. To which are added observations on the nature and properties of contagion. Tending to correct the popular notions on this subject, and pointing out the means of prevention / By Thomas Bateman.

  • Bateman, Thomas, 1778-1821.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A succinct account of the contagious fever of this country, exemplified in the epidemic now prevailing in London; with the appropriate method of treatment as practised in the House of Recovery. To which are added observations on the nature and properties of contagion. Tending to correct the popular notions on this subject, and pointing out the means of prevention / By Thomas Bateman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J present epidemic, if we may deduce such an inference from the demands upon the House of Recovery, was most particularly prevalent from the beginning of August to the middle of November*. Whether the extreme mildness of the winter may have been conducive to the continuance of the disease, it would be diffi¬ cult to determine ; but it has happened gene¬ rally during the partial occurrence of fever in former years, that few patients have claimed admission in the months of January and Fe¬ bruary. It has been supposed that the cold months were more likely to occasion the pro¬ pagation of fever, by inducing the subjects of it to shut themselves up for the purpose of excluding the cold : but they are at all times unused to the wholesome practice of ventila¬ tion, even when their habitations will admit of it; and the fact appears to militate against that opinion. In the autumn of 1816, before the influence of the scanty harvest could be felt, there was rather more than the usual number of appli- N - v The monthly admissions were in June 28, July 22, August 67, September 81, October 109, November 92, December 68.