William Budd and Typhoid Fever

Typhoid Fever in Fort William

authentic accounts of typhoid in the native are to be found, and I refer to Dr. Ewart's account of typhoid in the Ajtnere jail, published in the Indian Annals of October 1856, and to Dr. Cleghorn's account of the same disease in the Jounpore jail, published in the Indian Medical Gazette of February last.* I believe the fact that typhoid fever is endemic in Calcutta cannot be questioned. There i...

William Budd

"The idea that phthisis is a self-propagated zymotic disease, and that all the leading phenomena of its distribution may be explained by supposing that it is disseminated through society by specific germs contained in the tuberculous matter cast off by persons already suffering from the disease, first came to my mind, unbidden, so to speak, while I was walking on the Observatory Hill at Clifton...

HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME IN TYPHOID FEVER AND BRUCELLOSIS

Hemophagocytic syndrome is a non-malignant process that is characterized clinically by fever, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, pancytopenia in peripheral blood, and reactive histiocytes in the bone marrow. Bacterial infectious diseases like typhoid fever and brucellosis and viral infections including CMV, herpes viruses, and Epstein-Barr virus are diagnosed as the cause of this syndrome. In thi...

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Typhoid Fever and Typhoid Carriers