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Excerpt from The American Journal of the Medical Science, 1865, Vol. 49 A very formidable disease, designated by some as spoltcdfever, and by others as epidemic cerelwo-spinal has recently attracted a good deal of attention in professional circles. Of this, the pages of the leading medical journals of this country bear ample testimony. Besides, it has, within a few months past, been the theme of discussion at the meet ings of some of the most inuential and important of our medical societies; for example, the Philadelphia College of Physicians, and the New York Academy of Medicine. And, of a verity, no one can justly doubt that a disease so sudden in its attack, so rapid in its progress, so fatal in its re sults, and about which we really know so little, as the one under consider ation, is worthy of all the attention which the best minds in the profession can bestow. It is also a subject which challenges the earnest attention of the humbler labourers in the cause of science and humanity; and, actuated by this belief, the writer desires to place the history of the following cases on record, as a contribution, although but a small one, more especially to our knowledge of the pathological anatomy of this obscure, erratic, and formidable disorder. 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.