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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

STEWART, Alexander Patrick (1813 – 1883)

1813 – 1883

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1840

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Some considerations on the nature and pathology of typhus and typhoid fever, applied to the solution of the question of the identity or non-identity of the two diseases.

STEWART, Alexander Patrick (1813 – 1883)

Typhoid and typhus were often confused. Stewart made a careful analysis of a number of cases of both fevers and clearly demonstrated that there were in Britain two distinct fevers – typhoid and typhus.