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

  • Francis, John W. (John Wakefield), 1789-1861.
Date:
1816
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    the first English physician who promulgated this principle. I have not the sources of information at hand to enable me to determine how many of the writers on the malignant fever, as it has pre- vailed in our country, have entertained this opi- nion, though I well recollect Dr. Lining to have been one; as may be seen in his account of the fever of Charleston, published more than sixty years ago in the Edinburgh Physical and Literary Essays, volume second. In the interesting cor- respondence on the yellow fever which was main- tained a short time anterior to this period by Dr. John Mitchell, of Virginia, and Lieutenant Go- vernor Colden, of New-York, nothing is alluded to from which we might infer their knowledge of this law of the disorder. See the American Me- dical and Philosophical Register, vol. 1st. and 4th. In the Facts and Observations of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, on the nature and ori- gin of the pestilential fever, after establishing the identity of the yellow fever which existed in that city in 1793, 1797 and 1798, with the West India pestilence, the College state, that it is a circum- stance that deserves particular attention, that “ very few, if any, of the Creole French in this city, [Philadelphia,] suffered from the contagious ma- lignant fever which prevailed here in 1793, 1797, and 1798, though the disease w as introduced into