History and Description of an Epidemic Fever, Commonly Called Spotted Fever, Which Prevailed at Gardiner, Maine, in the Spring of 1814 (Classic Reprint)
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Several treatises Upon the Spotted Fever have already been published in this country. But as their object has been to give such an account of it, as would apply to its general character, as it appeared in different places; they could not of course take notice of many of the modifications, which it acquired from various local circumstances. It has been my oh jcet in this volume, to give a more clinical view ofthe disease; to exhibit it in its varieties, as it appeared to the physician at the bedside of his patient, rather than to seek its place in a regular system.
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Observations On The Typhoid Fever Of New England (1839)
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Enoch Hale was an American physician. He was a founder of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.
Background
Enoch Hale was born on January 19, 1790, in Westhampton, Massachusetts, United States, the fifth of the eight children of the Reverend Enoch and Octavia (Throop) Hale. The family was descended from Robert Hale of Kent, England, who settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1632. His uncle was the patriot, Nathan Hale and his brother, Nathan Hale, for many years edited the Boston Daily Advertiser.
Education
As a young man, Hale showed signs of a grave pulmonary condition and was sent, therefore, to New Haven, Connecticut, where he attended the lectures on chemistry of Professor Benjamin Silliman. From Silliman he acquired a scientific point of view which led to experimental investigations in other fields than chemistry. He began his studies in medicine, his health much improved, under the direction of Jacob Bigelow and John Warren in Boston, and was graduated, M. D. , by the Harvard Medical School in 1813. His inaugural dissertation, Experiments on the Production of Animal Heat by Respiration (1813), was a creditable piece of experimental work and called forth a refutation by Benjamin C. Brodie and a “reply” by the youthful Hale.
Career
Soon after his graduation Hale went to Gardiner, Maine, to practise. The same year, 1814, he made some observations on epidemic meningitis, History and Description of an Epidemic Fever, Commonly Called Spotted Fetter (1818), second only in importance to the first description of the disease given by Elisha North in 1811. His close associate in Maine was Benjamin Vaughan, the English politician and scientist, who lived at Hallowed, near Gardiner. Vaughan, who enjoyed a large correspondence with the scientific men of England and who had an excellent library, stimulated Hale to further scientific work, especially in meteorology and on the relation between climate and epidemic disease.
In 1818 Hale removed to Boston, where he practised and taught medicine for the rest of his life. He was appointed district physician to the Boston Dispensary in 1819, served on the first staff of the Boston Lying-In Hospital, established in 1832, and was visiting physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1837 to 1848.
As a teacher, especially in private instruction in midwifery, he was closely associated with John Collins Warren, George Hayward, and Walter Channing. He was a founder of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement (1828), the leading medical and literary society of its time, and served as recording secretary of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Toward the end of his life, in 1846, he strongly upheld the claims of W. T. G. Morton as the discoverer of ether anesthesia.