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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 43 1 Browse Search
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Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 38 0 Browse Search
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James Russell Lowell, Among my books 28 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 27 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 26 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 22 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 22 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 20 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1860., [Electronic resource], Diphtheria. (search)
quite lately, when it has been visited by a disease deemed by many to be a new one; but this is altogether a fallacy. I allude to a malady called diphtheria, and by the French diphtheria. The doctors disagree as to the character of this disease, as they are too often apt to do regarding the ills that flesh is heir to. But it is indisputably a modification of scarlatina, or the putrid variety of Richter, a very old author, and, therefore, an old disease instead of a new one. And, in plain English, it is nothing more nor less than the putrid sore throat, one of the most appalling and dangerous maladies that can possibly visit any community. There is nothing new in it with me, as I have been familiar with it, at different periods, for upwards of fifty-six years--a period in which I have been engaged in the study and practice of medicine. In a communication like the present, I can only drop a few remarks respecting the treatment of this terrible disease, which has already proved