... Veratrum has been condemned in some of our eastern hospitals in asthenic cases attended with much prostration, for instance typhoid fever, on the ground that we have already a weak, feeble pulse, and the veratrum would only make it weaker.” Now, any observer ...

... during and after the Revolution. There were, besides all the ordinary diseases, a great number of patients with petechial and typhoid fever. I used to speak with the other doctors on the subject, and very seldom indeed did they prescribe bleeding; and I do ...

... Amongst all these cases I have not heard of single recovery ; neither do I suppose such to be possible, considering the low and typhoid character of the accompanying fever. In most of these the submucous cellular tissue was found extensively infiltrated with ...