An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794 / To which is annexed, a description of the American yellow fever, which prevailed at Charleston in 1748, in a letter from Dr. John Lining.

  • Chisholm, Colin, 1755-1825
Date:
1799
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Credit: An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794 / To which is annexed, a description of the American yellow fever, which prevailed at Charleston in 1748, in a letter from Dr. John Lining. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    were putrefaction the only change made in the body by contagion, it might be ealy to cure fuch fevers by the ufe of acids only, or other antifeptics. But as the difeafe, when once formed, is not to be removed by fuch means alone, it would there- fore feem as if fome parts of the brain, or nervous fyftem, were early inflamed, and the fever kept up by that inflammation; as if to this circumftance moft of the fymptoms were owing ; and, as if in the ad- vanced ftate, a cure could not be _obtared until the obftructing matter was refolved by fuppuration or putre- faction,”