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On the Causes of Fever (1839)

On the Causes and Mode of Propagation of the Common Continued Fevers of Great Britain and Ireland

William Budd
edited by Dale C. Smith

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On the Causes of Fever (1839) sets forth Williams Budd's thoughts on typhoid by reference to an unsuccessful essay he submitted for the Thackeray Prize in 1840.

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176
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9780801831669
Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes
An Essay on the Causes and Mode of Propagation of the Common Continued Fevers of Great Britain and Ireland
Additions on the Front Endpapers of the Bound Volume of

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes
An Essay on the Causes and Mode of Propagation of the Common Continued Fevers of Great Britain and Ireland
Additions on the Front Endpapers of the Bound Volume of the Manuscript
Chapter 1. Introductory
Chapter 2. Inquiry into the Cuases and Mode of Propagation of the Common Continued Fever Which is Attended with Special Alterations of Peyer's Follicles
Chapter 3. Inquiry into the Cuases and Mode of Propagation of That Form of Typhoid Fever in Which There Is No Specific Lesion of the Intestinal Follicles and Which Is Often Attended eith a Measles-like Eruption
Chapter 4. Recapitulation
Afterword: The Stury of Continued Fever in Victorian Britain
Notes
Appendix: The National Library of Medicine Essay of 1839 and William Budd's Later Work
Notes
Index

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William Budd

William Budd (1811-1880) was an English physician and epidemiologist.
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Dale C. Smith

Dale C. Smith is Professor and Director, Military Medicine and History at the Uniformed Services University.