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Title: The Boston medical and surgical journal
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Massachusetts Medical Society New England Surgical Society
Subjects: Medicine Surgery
Publisher: Boston, Cupples, Upham & Co
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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and loins. On the 2d October, chill from 9$ to 10, P.M., followed by heat till2, A.M. Pain in neck and hack severe. On the 3d October, no chill■—but heat from 1 to 5, A.M. of October 4th. Quiniae s., gr. ij. fourtimes daily. Oct. 5th.— No chill nor heat. Sweating began at 2, A.M. and wasprofuse. 6th.—No chill, heat nor sweat. Feels well. Spleen cannot be felt;no tenderness over it. There was some tenderness across upper abdo-men at the first visit, but spleen was not searched for. One dej. daily.Pill three times a-day. 9th.— No chill nor heat since last visit. Sweats freely every night,but this is his habit. Is at school. Mother reports him very well. Omitmedicine. By the following still more curious document, brought to the noticeof the committee by Dr. Z. B. Adams, we have undoubted proof thatgenuine intermittent fever formerly prevailed, and was quite fatal on someparts of the eastern shores of Massachusetts. These data are extracted from a diary kept by the Rev. Noadiah
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Dr. Carpenter on the Respiratory Function. 545 Russell in 1682 and 3, while a tutor at Harvard College. By the Col-lege Catalogue this gentleman appears to have received his degree ofA.13. in 1681. He died in 1713. When writing his diary of every-day events, he scarcely could have hoped to have been the means ofillustrating the history of disease in New England. The original diary,fragments of which alone remain, is now in the possession of his de-scendants, and has been recently published. (See Drakes New EnglandHistorical and Genealogical Register, &c, January, 1853, page 53.) 16th day 6 month (Aug 16, 1682) * * The next day being: Fryday I went to wait on some company to Lynspring where for com- panys sake drinking too much cold water I set myself in an ague wch came again on Sabbath day and Tuesday. =* * # # * ###### 10 6 (Aug. 10, 1683) Samuel Gardner a student of ye College, of 2 years standing prompt for learning exemplary for piety and So- briety died at Salem of ye feaver

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