Remarks on irritative fever, commonly called the Plymouth dock-yard disease; with Mr. Dryden's detailed account of the fatal cases, including that of the lamented surgeon, Dr. [James] Bell / [John Butter].

  • Butter, John, 1791-1877.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Remarks on irritative fever, commonly called the Plymouth dock-yard disease; with Mr. Dryden's detailed account of the fatal cases, including that of the lamented surgeon, Dr. [James] Bell / [John Butter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This apology, 1 hope, will excuse the literary imperfections of the work, and direct the mind rather to the matter than to the manner in which it has been arranged. With respect to the remarks, little need be said. They must rest on their own basis ; but without them the eases might have appeared less perspicuous in some parts. The remarks are, of course, intended as deductions from the facts put into my posses- sion ; but whether or not they be such as the evidence warrants, or intrinsically of any value, the Profession must determine. I might, perhaps, have erred in calling this the “ Dock-Yard Disease,” but by that appel¬ lation it was designated throughout the coun- try; and therefore the popular term was re¬ tained until the investigation enabled me to apply the technical phraseology of “irritative feverBefore this time, the disease, medically considered, was both nameless and causeless. I have therefore ventured to baptise and to refer it to its true sources. In regard to the treatment, I have been more successful, by pointing out that which proved to he inefficient, than by substituting