Observations on the peripneumonia typhodes : now prevailing in several districts of the United States. Communicated in a letter to T. Romeyn Beck.

  • Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
Date:
1813
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    ON THE PERIPNEUMONIA TYPHODES, New-York, February 3d, 1813. Dear Sir, As far as you have been enabled to procure information from books, you are probably Well acquainted with the na- ture of the fatal epidemic which at present prevails in the city of Albany; but as you have been only a short time in practice, this is probably the first opportunity you have had of becoming practically conversant with this disease. I therefore take the liberty of communicating to you such re- marks as the cases I have occasionally seen in this city and in the county of Westchester have suggested. The disease at present prevailing, you know, is not a new disease, as it has been hastily represented by some physi- cians: on the contrary, it has been well described by Sau- vages, Huxhani and others : by the former under the very appropriate appellation of Peripneumonia typhodes.^ Nor is this a new disease in the United States: in the first volume of the Medical and Philosophical Register you will see a very valuable paper upon this subject by the late Dr« John Bard, in which be describes a similar epidemic which prevailed on Long-Island in the winter of 1749, and which * See his Nosologia Methodica, vol. I. For other synonyms, see also Cullen'a xN'osology, under the head of Peripneumoniae idiopathic^ complicate febre, re! Z. p. 101.