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"The most prevalent diseases in my practice, simple and uncomplicated diarrhoea, and intermittent fever, chiefly of the tertian type, which yielded very speedily to mild remedies. The number of deaths was about 15 per cent of the patients under-treatment."
Dr. Gordon, staff Surgeon, during whose care, and under intelligent treatment, the prevalence of fever in the 95th Regiment was universal, kindly replies to several queries respecting that disease, as follows.
"A large majority of the cases, and those generally fatal, came from the south range of the barracks.
"The disease was first observed about the first week in May; it was not very great in June, but the increase in the number and severity of the cases was great in July. It continued during August and sensibly decreased during September.
"The average duration of disease was about 56 hours. Death generally occurred about the third day, but in many instances a few hours after admission.
"The disease was called febris remittens, congestive and malignant." In addition to the foregoing brief statements, Dr. Gordon has prepared a paper, which it is hoped he will be induced to publish, containing a most interesting and intelligent account of this disease. I believe I am not peculiar in considering it nearly identical with the yellow fever of the West Indies, which is said never to occur in the biliary tract, although indeed the earliest name the yellow fever received was "maladie de Siam." I always held the...
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my practice, simple and
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under-treatment."
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September.
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average duration
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occur in the bacte, although
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