Clinical illustrations of fever. Comprising a report of the cases treated at the London Fever Hospital, 1828-1829 / [Alexander Tweedie].

  • Tweedie, Alexander, 1794-1884.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Clinical illustrations of fever. Comprising a report of the cases treated at the London Fever Hospital, 1828-1829 / [Alexander Tweedie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a mild character. It increased as the autumn ap- proached, and in the months of August, September, and October, one hundred and ninety-five cases were admitted; but the character of the fever still continued mild, and .of shorter duration than is generally observed at this season. On this account, there was not any unusual pressure for admission, every applicant being at once received into the Hospital. The class of patients generally admitted, is com- posed of domestic servants of subscribers, of the inmates of parish work-houses, artisans, and the various orders of the labouring poor and their families. These are admitted in every period of the dis- ease, though very often in the more advanced, and consequently, hopeless stages. It is important also to remark, that many of the patients had been, for a long period previous to the attack of fever, the subjects of incurable or- ganic diseases, upon which fever had supervened. This description of patients are often received from the work-houses; and when death takes place, it is not in consequence of the fever, but generally of the organic disease with which it has been com- plicated. Such class of cases tend very much to swell the