George Leith Roupell FRS (1797–1854): Significant Contributions to the Early Nineteenth-Century Understanding of Cholera and Typhus

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O'Shaughnessy WB . Proposal of a new method of treating the Blue Epidemic Cholera by the injection of highly-oxygenised salts into the venous system. Lancet 1831–2; i: 366–71

Roupell GL . A Short Treatise on Typhus Fever. London: W Wright, S Highley, and J Churchill, 1839: 301

Roupell GL . Some Account of a Fever Prevalent in the Year 1831. London: William Nicol, 1837:20. This monograph contains a classical account of epidemic (louse-borne) typhus. A former suggestion that this represented an outbreak of epidemic cerebrospinal (or meningococcal) meningitis⁸ cannot now be upheld

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St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Anaemia: bellows-sound in most of the arterial trunks of the body; and bruit de diable in the veins of the neck. (Under the care of Dr Roupell.) Lancet 1853; i: 200–1

St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Femoral hernia in an epileptic patient; unusual situation of the tumour. (Under the care of Dr. Roupell.) Lancet 1853; i: 314

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