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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.

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