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.

  • Colin Chisholm
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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    ‘ AP 268°] noon, a violent convulfion came on, and continued a few minutes; his refpiration became now extremely oppreffed, and he frequently, as if by a natural impulfe, laid his hand acrofs the pit of the ftomach ; the mufcular fpafm now increafed fo much as to fhake the bed with much violence. About fix o’clock, another violent convulfion car- ried him off. During the two laft days he took upwards of three ounces of the An- muftura bark, and fully three bottles of Port- Wine, with a good deal. of nourifhment, which indeed he generally had a craving for. AFTER