Note 117 — Chapter VI · THE EPIDEMICS OF TYPHUS FEVER IN CENTRAL EUROPE FOLLOWING UPON THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN AND DURING THE WARS OF LIBERATION (1812–14)

J. R. L. Kerckhoffs, Observations médicales faites pendant les campagnes de Russie en 1812 et d’Allemagne en 1813. First edition, 1814. Third edition, 1836. Reproduced in epitome by W. Stricker in his Historische Studien über Heereskrankheiten und Militärkrankenpflege, 1743-1814. Virchow’s Archiv für pathologische Anatomie u.s.w., vol. liii, p. 383. 1871. (The spelling ‘Kerkhove’ is incorrect.)—J. D. Larrey, Mémoires de chirurgie militaire, vols. i-iv. Paris, 1812-17. (Kerckhoffs and Larrey give only indefinite information regarding the nature of the diseases; Larrey, in particular, who served as a surgeon and general inspector on the Health Staff, had very little understanding for the infectious character of typhus fever or for the energetic measures that have to be adopted to prevent its dissemination.)—M. J. Lemazurier, De la campagne de Russie in Recueil de mémoires de médecine, chirurgie, et pharmacie militaires, vol. iii, p. 161. Paris, 1817. Translated from the French by C. F. Heusinger, Medizinische Geschichte des Russischen Feldzugs von 1812. Jena, 1823. (This book, owing to the clarity of its descriptions, constitutes the best source of information regarding the diseases that broke out during the Russian campaign.)—Ch. J. Scheerer, Historia morborum, qui in expeditione contra Russiam anno 1812 facta legiones Wurttembergicas invaserunt; praesertim eorum qui frigore orti sunt. Tubingae, 1819.—R. Virchow, Kriegstyphus und Ruhr. Virch. Archiv, vol. lii, p. 1. 1871.—E. Gurlt loc. cit.—W. Ebstein, Die Krankheiten im Feldzug gegen Russland. Stuttgart, 1902.