Lectures and essays on fevers and diphtheria, 1849 to 1879 / by Sir William Jenner.

Date:
1893
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Credit: Lectures and essays on fevers and diphtheria, 1849 to 1879 / by Sir William Jenner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    patches existed; in the other, those in which, so far as the unassisted eye could determine, the agminated glands were in a healthy condition. Of these sixty-six cases, forty-three belonged to the latter group, or were cases of typhus fever; the remaining twenty-three being cases of typhoid fever. I propose, in the first place, to take certain general condi- tions and the symptoms presented by either disease, and compare them with those which existed in the other; and then, in like manner, to collate the appearances found after death. YEARS AND MONTHS IN WHICH THE SIXTY-SIX CASES HERE ANALYSED WERE ADMITTED. Typhoid Fever. 1847. Months. Cases. January ... 1 February ... 1 August ... 4 November ... 1 1848. June .... 3 July .... 2 August ... 2 September . . . 3 October ... 2 November . . . 1 December ... 2 1849. January . . . 1 Typhus Fever. 1847. Months. Cases. April .... 1 May .... 4 June .... 1 July .... 5 September ... 3 October ... 3 November ... 1 1848. May .... 5 July .... 3 August ... 1 September ... 3 October ... 2 November ... 5 1849. January ... 5 February ... 1 PREVIOUS HEALTH, GENERAL BODILY CONDITION, AND SIZE. Typhoid and Typhtis Fevers.—The patients, as a general rule, had enjoyed uninterrupted health before the attack from which they died, and were, in the large majority of cases, of robust bodily conformation, and, if admitted soon after the commencement of either disease, moderately stout.