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270 COMMUNICATIOl^S. Nurse after luirse dying, I feared that all might in a very short time he confined to bed, whites as well as blacks. A short time previous to this, I had read the history of of typhoid fever in an Irish Hospital, that had continued for some time, proving very fatal to nurses and physicians, and making it difficult to get those who were willing to take the places made vacant by disease. Only two or three nurses of the orignal corps were left, and not one physician. One of the newly appointed doctors, encpiir-ed of those nurses how they managed to keej) clear of the fever, their answer was that they took their whiskey three times a day, and plenty of it; hence they did not fear the fever at all. The physician acting upon this hint had all the nurses and doctors belono-ino- to the house to com-mence the use of whiskey, and he reported that from that time no new'case occured in the house. Findingmyself to be similary situated, I ultimately prevailed upon the company (all l)eing temperance men) to try Avhiskey, by giving trom half gill to a gill three times a day for an adult, and to children in proportion. I was much gratified at the happy change effected. From the day they began to give the hands, both white and black, their allowance of whiskey, not a single new case occurred, and the fever subsided in some two or three weeks, and all were up again. I was so much pleased with this result, that I determined to try it further, and did adopt it in all the families to which lAvas called, where they had fever of this type, from this time, July 47, up to the time of my removal, December 54. In not one single instance did a new case occur, during that period, after the family (I mean those that Avere able to be up,) had commenced the use of this remedy. Since my residence in Iredell, I have pursued this same course and with the same success. Some persons in this section of country would not make a trial of this preventative, and all or nearly all of their families were sufferers. A trial was made in this neii^hborhood last sum-mer, ^vhieh resulted as all the rest had done. Col. A. has a
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-18: The Medical Journal of North Carolina [1858-1861] |
Document Title | The Medical Journal of North Carolina [1858-1861] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals.; Medicine -- Periodicals. |
Description | Issues for 1861 called v. 3, nos. 1-6 (repeating numbering from 1860 issues) but constitute v. 4, nos. 1-6. |
Contributor | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. |
Publisher | Edenton, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1858-1861. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1861 |
Identifier | NCHH-18-004 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 4 |
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Document Title | The Medical Journal of North Carolina [1858-1861] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals.; Medicine -- Periodicals. |
Description | Issues for 1861 called v. 3, nos. 1-6 (repeating numbering from 1860 issues) but constitute v. 4, nos. 1-6. |
Contributor | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. |
Publisher | Edenton, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1858-1861. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1861 |
Identifier | NCHH-18-004-0282 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 4 |
Issue Number | 3 |
Page Number | 270 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 270 COMMUNICATIOl^S. Nurse after luirse dying, I feared that all might in a very short time he confined to bed, whites as well as blacks. A short time previous to this, I had read the history of of typhoid fever in an Irish Hospital, that had continued for some time, proving very fatal to nurses and physicians, and making it difficult to get those who were willing to take the places made vacant by disease. Only two or three nurses of the orignal corps were left, and not one physician. One of the newly appointed doctors, encpiir-ed of those nurses how they managed to keej) clear of the fever, their answer was that they took their whiskey three times a day, and plenty of it; hence they did not fear the fever at all. The physician acting upon this hint had all the nurses and doctors belono-ino- to the house to com-mence the use of whiskey, and he reported that from that time no new'case occured in the house. Findingmyself to be similary situated, I ultimately prevailed upon the company (all l)eing temperance men) to try Avhiskey, by giving trom half gill to a gill three times a day for an adult, and to children in proportion. I was much gratified at the happy change effected. From the day they began to give the hands, both white and black, their allowance of whiskey, not a single new case occurred, and the fever subsided in some two or three weeks, and all were up again. I was so much pleased with this result, that I determined to try it further, and did adopt it in all the families to which lAvas called, where they had fever of this type, from this time, July 47, up to the time of my removal, December 54. In not one single instance did a new case occur, during that period, after the family (I mean those that Avere able to be up,) had commenced the use of this remedy. Since my residence in Iredell, I have pursued this same course and with the same success. Some persons in this section of country would not make a trial of this preventative, and all or nearly all of their families were sufferers. A trial was made in this neii^hborhood last sum-mer, ^vhieh resulted as all the rest had done. Col. A. has a |
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Article Title | Whiskey as a Prophylactic in Typhoid Fever |
Article Author | Kelley, Hugh |
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