Présentation de l'éditeur
This treatise is an attempted exposition of the problem of typhoid fever. It aims to treat historically the development and present status of our knowledge concerning this important malady as viewed from the standpoint of its mechanism. It is not primarily designed to aid directly in the clinic or the laboratory, but should serve to point out the relations of one to the other, to indicate the dependence of practice on theory, and the happy applicability to human need of investigation that may have seemed to aim merely at the gratification of intellectual curiosity. There are numerous admirable clinical treatises on typhoid fever, such as those of Curschmann, of Vincent and Muratet and of Mc Crae. The purely laboratory and the public health aspects of the disease are well summarized in such works as those of Eutscher, of Chapin and of Whipple. This book aims to strike a balance between these sources of infonnation, following the life history of the typhoid bacillus rather than the mianifestations of the disease it produces, in order to gain insight into the nature of the problem ras a whole. No attempt has been made to make this work encyclopedic in character, although the references to original sources are sufficiently ample to lead a prospective investigator to full sources of information. Although we may have succeeded in maintaining correct proportions in our estimate of the accuracy and value of facts, methods and theories that have been shaken down by time into their proper relations to one another, we shall unconsciously or wilfully have eacaggerated the importance of recent contributions. We may well have overemphasized the importance of modem investigations in respect to antityphoid vaccination and specific therapy in typhoid fever through personal enthusiasm. The data on these aspects of typhoid fever are so ample and so recent that a critical summa
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Originally published in 1918. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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