Author: Isaac Hays

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-05-05

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 9780366555994

Excerpt from The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1878, Vol. 75 IN the Rocky Mountain region of this country there prevails a fever to which the cox populi' has attached the name of mountain fever. Igno rance of the nature of disease has no doubt fitted this name 011 many a case to which a little medical knowledge would have applied a more specific title. The writer, for instance, has been called to a case of mountain fever which proved, on examination, to be one of pneumonia. Such mistakes are natural. But, within narrower limits, this looseness of diagnosis is not confined to the non-professional mind. W'hether we have an endemic disease in these mountain regions, separate and distinct from the diseased conditions which are recognized by the profession elsewhere, is a question which many a practitioner, who has seen mountain fever, would hesitate before answering. The first object of this paper will be to attempt a set tlement of this point. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.