The Charleston medical register for the year M.DCCCII / by David Ramsay, M.D.

  • David Ramsay
Date:
1803
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Credit: The Charleston medical register for the year M.DCCCII / by David Ramsay, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hofpitab!e. To others, arriving in the fame feafon, Sullivan's-ifland afforded a fate retreat, til] the dangi r was over. Exceptions to this, have here- tofore been very rare, and generally could be accounted for frcm fome irrcgulariry ; but in the year 1802, five cafes of the yellow-fever, (and two of them fatal.) occurred in one houie on :huc ifiand, while the other inhabitants were genen;!;y healthy. No inftance can be recollecVd, in which there was any ground to luppole, that the yellow fever was eitner imported, or had been cmnagious. phyfician, nunc, nor o;herp;rfon expoied to ccn- n, from their inteicourfe withperfous labour- ing under ycllow-fev-r, caught the difeafe. It was exc'ufi'eiv confined to ftrangers ; and amoi:g them there was no evidence of iis being cornmum- ca d from one co another. riaviig enumerated the difeafes, that afHicled the inhabitants in 1802, 1 proceed with pleature to point out fome events, in the fame year, which have a h.voraoie afped on their future health. \ accination was introduced into Charleflon, in February, and in a fhort time became general. It had been long known in England, that perfons who from ir-ilking c.iwj, were infected with a difeafe peculiar to them, called the cow-pox, were afterwards fecurefrom the attacks of the fmall-pox. The ingenious Or. jenner, poffelfed of ihis facl, inftitnted experiments to aicertain the practicability of propagating the cow-pox from one human fu!\jedt to another, and with the fame fecurity from the fmall-pox, that was acquired by perfon* •riginally infected from the cow. The refult was