Practical remarks on yellow fever / by G. Birnie.

Date:
1819
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    the gall bladder, which ha<] a Miigbtly bitter tti5te. 'ilie contenta of the atomaoh had no taste. On adding a few drops of sulphuric acid to a little of the contents of the gall bladder, mixed with water, DO oily matter rose to the top; but there was a copious precipitate of a green colour. A few' drops of muriatic acid cansed an immediate precipitation of a whitish yellow sediment: on adding to this mixture a little li- quor ammooiie, the precipitate was dissolved, and (he solution became of a green colour. Alcohol coagulated the undiluted conlenUof the gall bladder; but the liquor ammoniaf produced no change on it. Sulphuric acid produced no elTect on the contents of the stomach, nei- ther did alcohol; but muriatic acid, undiluted, coagulat- ed, and turned it of a reddish brown colour. The con- teuts of the gall bladder, and stuinacb, according to these experiments, exhibited qualities different from either blood or bile, and from each other. These are fair specimens of tJte fever which rag- ed in the Antelope. They show the various forms and characters which tlie inter-tropical fever as- sumes; and the utter uselessness of mercurials, cathartics, and even venesection, unless employed earlier, and to an extent far greater than has hither- to been done. In August, 181G, a disease broke out on board the Childers, brig, while anchored in the Gulf of Paria, ofi' Port Spain, Trinidad,