The internet is a wonderful thing . . .

[elmwood]

I couldn't sleep from about 5:00 this morning as my brain was going a mile a minute, plotting a scene. I realised that my protagonist's father probably had typhus. I also realised that I had only a vague idea of the symptoms and absolutely no idea of the treatments used in 1812. A quick google search this morning brought me to a book by one Dr.

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[haworth_attard]

Just let me die of the disease!

[elmwood]

When I looked up some of the medicines suggested, Barb, they were mostly poisons!