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    8 FEVER, IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECTS.

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    lation , * ¦ and that defective nutrition is its great predisposing : cause

    both Kelapsing . in its mode or Famine of ori Fever in and is its so closel history y connected , that it has with been typ often hus _,, g

    considered to be but a milder form of the same fever . Dr . Murchisony howeverbelieves the two diseases to be distinct , and that relapsing

    fever it is the is more , result indep of destitution endent of alone over . -crowding It is not than easy to typ separate hus , and these that

    two conditions . Destitution generally causes over-crowding . The evidence Dr . Murchison chiefly relies upon in separating the results where but

    of each of the two conditions is derived from those facts one condition could be in force . He observes , that during the great the inha

    it bitants Irish has ep been idemics of villages t the hus , suffered houseless in the fevers exclusivel poor of by y hosp the from itals way , relapsing , -side ships , , and and fever prisons , while - ,

    where destitution yp did not exist . "Whether or notdestitution and relapsing fever stand to each other precisel them y in the to , relation be close of cause and

    constant and effect . , The the Irish connexion and Scotch between idemics of seem 1817 s 18271843-47 , were notable instances of relapsing ep fever ives . Dr it . Alison his , , in , inion describ that

    in prevalent ing large the ep towns when idemics , the where of condition 1817 the state and of 1827 of the society poor , g is is bad comp as , and lex , comparativel fever op will be y

    rare The when foregoing it is tolerabl brief y expositi comfortable on distinctions of . Dr . Murchison he traces s b classification etween their ¦ :

    How several of fevers does predisposing , and the of specific the and princi poison exciting pal act causes ? , Supposing leads to another it to be question either :

    how generated does anew it produce , or simp its ly wonderful transmitted and from manifold one person effects to another on the ,

    system g a anic certain This poison ? question s , some of can induc onl idit y e be changes parti h all the while y bod answered they while are . others passin Of the g do inor with not - degree througy

    their find with so effect the read particular by y an ing exit rap tissues , " but They y enter of deprive different into the permanent organs organ , . s Liebi of chemical the g princi exp union lains pal

    suffering property or which , effecting say appertain transformations , s to their . vital If the con organs dition ; of viz which ., that the of

    functions fatal . " But are _x the thus animal destroyed poisons are , vital especi organs ally those , these of poisons contagious are

    feversact in a totally different way . Liebig ascribes the phenomena , which succeed their introduction into the body to a process is

    in resembling great amount fermentation through , whereby changes the effected poison in the itself blood reproduced . In this ,

    the ease morbid the eruptive substance disease . Liebi is the m effort aintains made that by " nature a substance to throw in the off g

    act of decomposition , added to a mixed fluid in which its consti-

    8 Fever, In Its Social Aspects.

    8 FEVER , IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECTS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/8/