Excerpt from Illinois and Indiana Medical and Surgical Journal, 1846-7, Vol. 1 Some attacks were, so far as could be ascertained, attributa ble solely to epidemic influence, the patients not any intercourse direct, or otherwise, previously, the diseased. I do not entertain a doubt, however, of its conta gions nature. By far the greater number of severe cases were traceable directly to this origin, and in turn communicated the disease to others, numerous examples, in proof of this, could be adduced I shall be compelled, m an article condensed, as this 1s designed, to content myself with a few, well marked, - though not more unequivocal than many others. Two gen tlemen, one resident twenty, and the other-fivegmiles' distant, visited the house of a friend, f our of w fined with the disease in some stage. Erysipelas in their respective neighbo nearer than at this point They remained twelve or sixteen hours. In three days after the1r return both were seized with the 1 disease. The attack of the one residing nearest proved mild and 1t was not propagated to any extent from him. D1ed; previously communicating it to almost every his father' s large family - one other of whom died from whom it spread over a considerable region, embracing a town of a thousand inhabitants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.