Cyclopaedia Of The Diseases Of Children V 1 1889 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...without deaths from it. From 1866 to 1872 the annual deaths from this disease in New York varied from eighteen to forty-eight. Commencing in December, 1871, and continuing during the first half of 1872, a severe epidemic occurred, producing a large mortality. Many who recovered permanently lost their hearing and some their sight from the attack. In this epidemic the physicians of New York were fully aroused to the importance of the disease, which was causing so much suffering, and which attacked the lower animals, especially the jaded horses of the city car-and stage-lines, not a few of them dropping down in harness, so suddenly did the attacks occur. In 1872, seven hundred and eighty-two deaths, chiefly of children, resulted from cerebro-spinal fever within the city limits. This epidemic appeared to produce a greater dissemination of the disease and more firmly establish it in the city;" for since then the annual deaths from it have varied between ninety-seven in 1878 and four hundred and sixty-one in 1881. In Philadelphia cerebro-spinal fever began in 1863, causing forty-nine deaths in that year, and it has never been absent from that city since. Prof. Stille" states that between 1863 and 1882 it has caused two thousand and fortynine deaths within the city limits. In Philadelphia, as in New York, it has for some years produced a nearly uniform weekly mortality. The prevalence of cerebrospinal fever in the United States and its probable importance in the future may be inferred from the fact that it has recently occurred also in Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Denver, Norfolk, Boston, Worcester, New Haven, Albany, Syracuse, Auburn, Milwaukee, Wilmington, Detroit, Baltimore, Charleston, Toledo, Mobile, Salt Lake, Grand Rapids, ...