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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

RITCHIE, Charles (1799 – 1878)

1799 – 1878

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1846 –1847

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Practical remarks on the continued fevers of Great Britain, and on the generic distinctions between enteric fever and typhus.

RITCHIE, Charles (1799 – 1878)

Introduction of the term “enteric fever”, a term for typhoid. Ritchie carefully differentiated the symptoms of typhus and typhoid.