An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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RITCHIE, Charles

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Practical remarks on the continued fevers of Great Britain, and on the generic distinctions between enteric fever and typhus.

Monthly J. med. Sci., 7, 347-58, 1846 – 1847.

Introduction of the term “enteric fever”, a term for typhoid.  Ritchie carefully differentiated the symptoms of typhus and typhoid.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Salmonellosis › Typhoid Fever, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Lice-Borne Diseases › Typhus