Typhus fever : with particular reference to the Serbian epidemic. . idemic of typhus in Serbiaand the influence of the anti-typhus campaign upon it, it isinteresting to refer briefly to the history of the disease inprevious epidemics. Summary of Previous Epidemics Hirsch x states that the history of typhus is written in thosedark pages of the worlds history which tell of the grievousvisitations of mankind by war, famine, and misery of everykind. In every age as far back as the historical inquirer canfollow the disease at all, typhus is met with in association withthe saddest misfortunes of the
Typhus fever : with particular reference to the Serbian epidemic. . idemic of typhus in Serbiaand the influence of the anti-typhus campaign upon it, it isinteresting to refer briefly to the history of the disease inprevious epidemics. Summary of Previous Epidemics Hirsch x states that the history of typhus is written in thosedark pages of the worlds history which tell of the grievousvisitations of mankind by war, famine, and misery of everykind. In every age as far back as the historical inquirer canfollow the disease at all, typhus is met with in association withthe saddest misfortunes of thepopulace. From the writings ofCorradi we know that typhus fever was epidemic in Italy in1505, and shortly afterwards spread from there all over disease was described more accurately by Fracastori in1533, and from this date onward its history can be more readilytraced. It had evidently also prevailed extensively at an earliertime and with great severity among the Castilian troops 1 Hirsch: Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology, 1883, i, X
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