On the identity or non-identity of the specific cause of typhoid, typhus and relapsing fever / by William Jenner.

  • Jenner, William, Sir, 1815-1898.
Date:
1850
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Credit: On the identity or non-identity of the specific cause of typhoid, typhus and relapsing fever / by William Jenner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1)K. JENNEll ON TYPHOID, stances, the houses^ from which more than one individual affected with typhoid fever, or typhus fever, were brought to the Hospital, without being able to detect any hygienic differences in the condition of the people, or in the localities themselves to modify the exciting cause. Before concluding, it will be well summarily to repeat, that in 1848, one fourth of the cases admitted into the Hospital had typhoid fever; while, from thirty-four foci of typhus fever, yielding 101 cases, there was brought to the Hospital once only a case of typhus fever and a case of typhoid fever from the same house j and during the same time, among five localities, affording nine cases of typhoid fever, one locality only, viz. the house from which the father and son before referred to were brought, yielded a case of typhoid and one of typhus fever. That in 1849, although eighteen foci of typhus fever yielded fifty-one cases, and four foci of typhoid fever afforded ten cases, not a single example of the two diseases being received into the Hospital from one house occurred. With reference to the exceptional case, I. must observe, that for exceptional cases to be of any value in proving the identity of typhus fever and typhoid fever, they must be met with more frequently than similar exceptional cases are met with in diseases having a specific cause, universally acknowledged to be different. Now, the following facts prove that, with respect to measles, scarlet fever, and typhus fever, such exceptional cases are as frequent as with respect to typhoid and typhus fevers. During the last three years I have seen a case of typhus fever brought into the Hospital from a house in which all the children were suffering from measles; another case of typhus fever brought from a house in which the children had scarlet fever; a girl admitted with scarlet fever, who > These houses were situated in courts or streets in the City, Bethnal Green, St. Pancras, and Holborn. I visited too few and made too ini- perfeot inquiries to draw any strict inferences, but my general impression is stated in the text.