A Treatise on the continued feversWilliam Wood & Company, 1881 - 365 Seiten |
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Seite 257 - ... propagation of the typhus poison? The fact that typhus fever is contagious is based on evidence which shows, — (1.) That, when typhus commences in a house or district, it often spreads with great rapidity; (2.) That the prevalence of typhus in single houses, or in circumscribed districts, is in direct proportion to the degree of intercourse between the healthy and the sick ; (3.) That persons in comfortable circumstances, and living in localities where the disease is unknown, are attacked on...
Seite 196 - Typho-malarial fever is not a specific or distinct type of disease, but the term may be conveniently applied to the compound forms of fever which result from the combined influence of the causes of the malarious fevers and of typhoid fever.
Seite 15 - about the end of April (1658), suddenly a distemper arose, as if sent by some blast of the stars, which laid hold on very many together; that in some towns in the space of a week above a thousand people fell sick together.
Seite 195 - Strube attributed the peculiar features of this epidemic to the depressed condition of the troops ; they had been exposed to great hardships on the way to Paris, over-fatigued by forced marches, and very insufficiently supplied with food, and the supply continued deficient for some time after their arrival, owing to difficulties of transport.
Seite 129 - July 10th a girl in the same house, and in August a boy, were attacked. Their dejections were certainly, in part, thrown into the Furlenbach, and moreover, the soil-pit of the privy communicated with the brook. In the middle of July the meadows of the Furlenthal were irrigated as usual for the second hay crop, and within three weeks this wan followed by the outbreak of the epidemic at Lausen.
Seite 255 - August five hundred and ten persons perished. The following are mentioned as the symptoms: loss of appetite, great headache, sleeplessness, loss of memory, deafness, and delirium so that the patients would get up and walk about like madmen. The general impression at the time was that the ' infection arose from the nasty and pestilential smell of the prisoners when they came out of the jail, two or three of whom had died a few days before the assize began...
Seite 303 - sometimes in four, for the most part in five or six days, sometimes in nine, and commonly in a critical sweat : it was far from being mortal. I was assured of seventy of the poorer sort at the same time in this fever, abandoned to the use of whey and God's good providence, who all recovered. The crisis, however, was very imperfect, for they were subject to relapses, even sometimes to the third time
Seite 16 - ... and swelling of the fauces were likewise very common. The sick were in general much given to sweating, which, when it broke out of its own accord and was very plentiful, continuing without striking in again, did often in the space of two or three days carry off the fever. The disorder in other cases terminated with a discharge of bilious matter by stool, and sometimes by the...
Seite 133 - ... and the day before the festival was partly roasted, partly minced up for sausages, and the fragments used for the ragout were cooked on the following day. Nothing amiss was observed with the ragout, but the cold roast veal was in part decomposed, and the sausages were manifestly bad. In consequence of this they were largely distributed among the spectators, the children, and persons who could not afford to pay. Out of 690 persons who sat down to the collation, 290 were attacked. In all, 668 persons...
Seite 129 - Lausen began to flow much more abundantly. The hole was filled up, and the Furlenbach resumed its usual course. The Furlenbach was unquestionably contaminated by the privies of the adjacent farm-houses, the soilpits of which communicated with it. Thus, from time immemorial, whenever the meadows of the Furlenthal were irrigated, the contaminated water of the Furlenbach, after percolation through the superficial strata and a long underground course, helped to feed one of the two heads of the fountain...