Letter on febrile contagion : addressed to David Hosack, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. ... / by John W. Francis.

  • John W. Francis
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1816
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    he considers as totally distinct. The agency of marsh effluvia, I have already observed, he wholly rejects as a cause of the Bulam, Gibraltar, or real , yellow fever. This you will perceive is striking at the root of that most pernicious error that has been so zealously and so widely propagated, notwith- standing the evidence of facts to the contrary, and the happy nosological distinctions made long since by such authors as Blane, Chisholm, Jackson, Lempriere, Clark of Dominica, Stewrart, Bard, and numerous other practical observers of undoubted veracity. For I believe you will agree with me that from the want of a due discrimination on the part of many writers who have professed to de- scribe the fevers of the United States, as they have prevailed in our sea-port towns and in dif- ferent inland places of our country, have proceed- ed most of the dissentions that have existed on this subject. This want of discrimination too may justly be considered adequate to the pro- duction of many of the histories of the diseases of America that have appeared, and in which we find confounded fevers arising from dissimilar causes, characterised by a different train of symp- toms, and varying most essentially in the methods of treatment they require.* Dr. Pym’s is no teeble * This language, I feel assured, will not be deemed too strong by those who impartially compare the differeut accounts of the
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