TYPHUS

This term (implying to burn with a con cealed and smothered flame) is applied to certain continued fevers, attended by great debility and a tendency to putic faction. It is contagious or infectious, and often epidemic, and is most prone to attack debilitated persons, especially where aided by want of cleanline , good food, and fresh air; so that it often spreads in hospitals, jails, camps, and other situations where such causes a ist its progre . This form of fever is liable to several modifications, commonly termed low fever, putrid fever, nervous fever, jail fever, fcc. Its attack is generally characterized by inordinate muscular i and nervous debility, and by great depre ion of spirit*?, [s. 1295]