Typhoid Fever

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 124, 25 April 1889, Page 3

Typhoid Fever

Writing to the Argus with regard to the effect of tobacco smoke on typhoid fever, a " Medical Student" says : — " Koine twelve months ago my attention was casually directed to the iact that very few employes in our tobacco factories were attacked by typhoid fever. Thinking that tobacco might have some effect on the typhoid -virus, either as a preventive or a curative agent, I made frequent and systematic inquiries of cases coming into the hospital. I find that over 75 per cent, of males admitted suffering from typhoid fever were non-smokers. In more then one cose I found the patient had been a Hunker, but had given up the pipe some little time before contracting the fever. "When these facts are considered, in connection with the assumption that the female cases were non-smokers, I thiuk that, at the least, it must be admitted that tobacco has a prophy latic effect, and I feel convinced that careful inquiry by the members of the faculty will show it, and mayhap result in tobacco being used to prevent, if not cure this fell disease."