Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 820

JOHN HUXHAM (1692-1768) An essay on fevers, and their various kinds, as depending on different constitutions of the blood: with dissertations on slow nervous fevers; on putrid, pestilential, spotted fevers; on the small-pox; and on pleurisies and peripneumonies. Printed for S. Austen 1750 2nd ed. xvi, 280 pp. 20 cm.

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During Huxham's day, typhoid and typhus fevers were usually regarded as a single condition. However, in this work Huxham discusses the etiology and clinical signs of typhoid (slow nervous) fever and typhus (putrid malignant) fever and makes a clear differentiation between the two. Perhaps Huxham's best known work, it was so well received in 1750 that it was necessary to issue a second edition that same year. This second edition also contains the first use of the word "influenza" by an English physician.

Cited references: Cushing H552 (3rd ed., 1757); Garrison-Morton 2201; Osler 3041 (4th ed., 1764); Waller 5039 (3rd ed.); Wellcome III, p. 322

Gift of William B. Bean, M.D