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56. The subject of typhus fever being thus introduced, the Com- 

 mittee will here bring forward what they have to say on that sub- 

 ject. Several deeply interesting questions are warmly discussed in 

 the Journals; one or two only of these can be touched upon, and the 

 committee regret that they must necessarily so much restrict them- 

 selves as to leave it quite out of their power to do the subjects justice. 

 The first they will notice is, " The identity of Typhus and Typhoid 

 Fevers." That typhus and typhoid are but different names for the 

 same disease, viewed under different circumstances, has lately been 

 maintained with much ability by M. Gaultier de Claubry. A dis- 

 cussion took place in the French Academy, in which M. Rochoux 

 opposed the views put forth by G. de Claubry, and maintained that 

 typhus was contagious — typhoid not. That typhus attacks all ages, 

 while typhoid generally occurs between the ages of fifteen and forty. 

 That delirium and skin eruptions exist in typhus and not in typhoid. 

 That typhus lasts from ten to fifteen days — typhoid from twenty to 

 thirty. All these objections were ably refuted by a writer in the 

 Dublin Journal; but, as coming more within the letter of their in- 

 structions, the Committee will turn to American authorities. In a 

 notice of the last edition of Professor Bartlctt's excellent Avork on 

 fevers, in the March number of the Charleston Medical Journal and 

 Revieiv, the editor takes a different view of the subject from the 

 author, and has brought forward, in a condensed form, a mass of 

 evidence in support of his opinion, which can scarcely fail to carry 

 conviction with it. After a searching comparison of all the symp- 

 toms of the two diseases as they have been described by the long list 

 of authors who have written on the subject, Dr. Gaillard arrives at 

 the conclusion, that no single one of them is exclusively met with in 

 one form of the disease alone. On the contrary, every single symp- 

 tom embraced in the whole range of those which make up the phy- 

 siognomy of both the forms of disease, are' found in the descriptions 

 of each. The more or less gradual approach of the febrile symp- 

 toms — the degree and kind of heat — the peculiarities of the thoracic 

 symptoms — the mode of approach, duration, and kind of nervous 

 symptoms — the circumstances under which the diseases originate — 

 the abdominal symptoms, especially the diarrhoea and hemorrhage, 

 and the time when these come on — the grouping of the symptoms — 

 the cutaneous eruptions — the abdominal lesions — the causes, prog- 

 nosis, and treatment — all bear out Dr. Gaillard fully in his view of 

 the real identity of the two diseases. They sustain the idea that 

 these are, in fact, but one and the same disease, only modified by 



