A case of typhus or ship fever, with remarks / By Wm. Ingalls.

  • Ingalls, William, 1769-1851.
Date:
1848
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Credit: A case of typhus or ship fever, with remarks / By Wm. Ingalls. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the morbidly increased irritability of the muscular fibre, and in this way preventing any ulterior mischief to the brain ? Finally, it may be inferred, the miasm of typhus acts as an irri¬ tant on the muscular system, whence all the symptoms of this for¬ midable disease proceed ; and that opium, in appropriate doses, may be found to be more specific to it in all its varieties, than any other article in the materia mediea. v