Typhoid Fever

1844 Boston Medical and Surgical Journal  
lumbar abscess, with hectic symptoms, having such profuse night-sweats that his attendants were in the habit of changing his night-dress in the course of each night. He was not, and had not been, exercised with much pain-walked about the house in a slow and cautious manner, partially stooping; and many who had seen him judged from his countenance and general appearance that he was laboring under some singular and fatal disease. There was very extensive tumefaction in the left lumbar and
more » ... ing regions, with obvious fluctuation ; but nothing of the kind in the region of the groin. Not expecting to meet with any such kind of case when I left home, and having never before been called to prescribe for the like, I was dis-
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