Diphtheria : its nature and treatment varieties and local expressions / by Morell MacKenzie.

  • Mackenzie, Morell, 1837-1892.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Diphtheria : its nature and treatment varieties and local expressions / by Morell MacKenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P E E F A C E. Nearly twenty years having elapsed since any English work has appeared on the subject of Diphtheria, and medical views as to the nature and treatment of the disease having undergone considerable development during that period, it has appeared to me that a short sketch of the affection, from one who has had consider- ate opportunities of studying it, might be of interest, and possibly of use, to the profession. A malady which, under various names, has existed for so many thousand years, which has been so widely diffused, and which has caused such dire havoc, must always be of interest to the student of medicine. The victims of the disease have generally been children of tender years, but vigorous youth has frequently fallen under the scourge, and anxious parents have too often suffered for their watchful solicitude. In its attacks it shows no respect for distinctions of sex or social position. Eich and poor, strong and weak, alike fall beneath its onslaught, and its ravages are greater in scattered villages than among the crowded denizens of our great cities.