An essay on the bilious epidemic fever, prevailing in the state of New-York : to which are added, a letter from Dr. James Mann, hospital-surgeon ; and a dissertation by Dr. John Stearns, delivered before the state medical society, on the same subject ; with notes and observations on these productions / by Christopher C. Yates.
- Christopher C. Yates
- Date:
- 1813
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Credit: An essay on the bilious epidemic fever, prevailing in the state of New-York : to which are added, a letter from Dr. James Mann, hospital-surgeon ; and a dissertation by Dr. John Stearns, delivered before the state medical society, on the same subject ; with notes and observations on these productions / by Christopher C. Yates. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![INTRODUCTION. THE very flattering reception the first edition of this Essay has met with from the public, and the very polite manner in which several physicians of respectability, from various parts of this and the neighboring states, have acknowledged the advan* tages they have derived from the observations it contained, has encouraged me to re-publish it with a few additional remarks. I had indeed hoped, that some abler pen would have followed my first effort, and given to the public a dissertation, with many facts and obser- vations that might have escaped my notice, or at least have added their testimony to mine, in order to insure a confidence in, or render more general and popular, a practice, which has as yet seemed the only one that could be relied on for the treatment of the prevailing Epidemic. In this we have been disappointed, unless we take into consi- deration the several newspaper communications that have appeared on the subject, which, from their manner of publication, have had but a limited circu- lation. Some of these have, unfortunately, been the means of much mischief; others, again, have done neither hurt nor good, as they contained nei- ther a true history of the disease, and recommended no decisive method of cure; but from this mass ] must except a production, which appeared in th*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21166043_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
