1873 – Dr. William Budd wrote: “Typhoid Fever, its Nature, Mode of spreading, and Prevention.”
Budd did not put his views before the profession until 1857-60 when he published a series of papers in The Lancet, afterwards embodied in his work Typhoid Fever in 1873. He had long since taught them in the Bristol Medical School. During the depressing period of opposition that he encountered, he gained support from fellow country doctors; otherwise…