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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    IDENTITY OR NON-IDENTITY OF THE SPECIFIC CAUSE OF TYPHOID, TYPHUS, AND RELAPSING FEVER. BY WILLIAM JENNER, M.D. (Lond.) LICENTIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS ; PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON; ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. COMMUNICATED BY WILLIAM SHARPEY, M.D., F.R.S. Received November SOtli.—Head December Htli, 1849. Therb are certain diseases which have peculiarities com- mon to all, so characteristic, that, although we are ignorant of their intimate nature, and even of their exact seat, yet they naturally group themselves together and form a class admitting of one general description. This class exhibits equally natural subdivisions. The species, of which these subdivisions are formed, are distinguished from each other by peculiarities even more marked, if possible, than the class in which they are included is from all other classes. The great class to which I refer is that of— Acute febrile diseases, having a determinate duration, and dependent for their origin on specific causes. <It includes, as distinct species, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, typhus fever, typhoid fever, and relapsing fever. For many years the first three were confounded under one name, and it was only after the publication of Dr. Withering^s essay that measles and scarlet fever were regarded as distinct afi'ections, i. e. distinct as to their course, their symptoms, their lesions, and their causes. The three last-enumerated diseases are yet, by many, looked on as but varieties of one III