The additional number to the Letters of Humanitas : together with John Hillen's, William Jenkin's & Doctor M'Kenzie's letters - and other documents, relative to Polly Elliott's case : to which is added, Mr. Jesse Hollingsworth's letter - and a reply to the same / by James Smith, physician.

  • James Smith
Date:
February 9, 1801
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Credit: The additional number to the Letters of Humanitas : together with John Hillen's, William Jenkin's & Doctor M'Kenzie's letters - and other documents, relative to Polly Elliott's case : to which is added, Mr. Jesse Hollingsworth's letter - and a reply to the same / by James Smith, physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and in my opinion the girl appeared to be as able to walk her of them, and I conceive that Mr. M'Cormick and the ether gentlemen in company with her mull have been of the fame opinion with me, or they would not have fuf- fered her in that /daggering faint condition (which (he is laid to have been in) to carry the bundle of clothes which ihe then had in her hand, and carried with her—and that I few nothing improper in the conduct of Mr. Town fend towards Polly Elliot [the girl alluded to] or to any other perfon, but that he mowed a difpofition to give every necef- fary affiftance as far as lay in his power. Win. JENKINS. Baltimore, Jan. 22, 1801. The following is a juft and accurate ltatement of Mary Elliott's cafe : . MARY ELLIOTT was received into the hofpital on the 7th September, 1800, in confequence of an order for that purpofe, granted by Mr. Townfend. She came in during thofe hours in which I was in the habit of paying my evening vifit to that inftitution : fhe appeared to me to be an healthy-locking robult girl, [as I then re- marked] of the age of 12 or 13 years ; and from the mild- nefs of thefymptoms which marked her difeafe, I was in. duced to believe it a cafe of the common autumnal fever. I obferved I have remarked in my note book. that 1 uas doubtful of its being the prevailing epidemic, and certain I am that the difeafe did not appear to have attained that grade which conftitutes yellow fever. 4flight pain in the head and back, accompanied with a more frequent pulfe than I have^fually met with in the yellow fever, were the thief fymptoms of this girl's cafe. Some blood was drawn from her arm and fuch medicines adminiftered, as I con- ceived bell adapted to her fituation. Thefe were perfilted in with every apparent advantage, till the morning ot the fifth day after her admiilion, when (probably in
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