A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain / by Charles Murchison.

  • Murchison, Charles, 1830-1879.
Date:
1862
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Credit: A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain / by Charles Murchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    LIST OF ILLFSTHATIONS. A.—Coloured Plates. I. Eruption of Typhus at an early stage II. „ „ advanced stage .... III. Lenticular Rose-spots of Pytliogenic or Enteric Fever . IV. „ „ unusually numerous .... V. „ „ and taches bleuatres, in a case of Pytho srenic Fever 129 469 473 474 B.—DlAGR.\MS. I. Annual number of admissions of each of the Continued Fevers into the London Fever Hospital, during fifteen years. The numbers for 1863 are not quite accurate, as the diagram was constructed in August. The precise number of admissions from January i to October 31, were: of Tyjihus, 1,605; of Relapsing Fever, o; of Pythogeuic Fever, 167 ; and of Simple Continued Fever, 88 51 II. Ages of 3,456 ca^es of Typhus Fever, with the number of deaths at each age 62 III. Quarterly admissions of Typhus Fever into the London Fever Hospital, during fifteen years. The admissions in the third quarter of 1862, were 393 65 IV. Admissions of Typhus Fever into the London Fever Hospital, during each season of fifteen years. The admissions during the autumn of 1862 were 352 66 V. Variations according to age, in the rate of Mortality of 3,4.56 cases of Typhus Fever 221 VI. Ages of 1,772 cases of Pythogenic Fever, with the number of deaths at each age . . .4.10 VII. Number of admissions into the London Fever Hospital, during fifteen years, of Pythogenic Fever and Typhus, showing the epidemic character of the latter, and the endemic nature of the former. (See explanation of Diagram I.) . . . -413 VIII. Quarterly admissions of Pythogenic Fever into the London Fever Hospital, during fifteen years. The admissions in the third quarter of 1862 were 60 416 IX. Admissions of Pythogenic Fever, into the London Fever Hospital, during each season of fifteen years. The admissions in the autumn of 1S62 were 72 418 X. Varieties, according to age, in the rate of Mortality of 1,772 cases of Pythogenic Fever . . . . . . . . -531