Excerpt from Clinical Lectures on the Contagious Typhus Epidemic in Glasgow, and the Vicinity, During the Years 1831 and 1832

In the following Lectures, gentlemen, I propose to offer you some remarks on the contagious Typhus, at present, March 1832, epidemic in Glasgow and the vicinity, and of which you have seen so many cases treated in our Infirmary. To point out, by a laboured enumeration of motives, how much it concerns every student to be well acquainted with this disease, I hold to be superfluous labour. It will be sufficient if I remind you, that there is no malady of more frequent occurrence than fever, and none to which you will be oftener called, in the course of your future practice. Whatever relates to it, therefore, you will readily perceive, well merits your utmost attention.

The details of our subject naturally arrange themselves under two heads, or sections. One of these is purely practical, and will contain merely the history, and treatment, of the distemper. The other is more speculative, and controversial, and will embrace the consideration of various disputed points, such as the dogma of crises, and critical days, and, more especially, the question whether the malady be idiopathic, or topical, sthenic, or asthenic: in other words, what is to be esteemed the true nature, or essence, of our low contagious typhus?

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