An inaugural essay on the bilious typhus which prevailed in Bancker-Street and its vicinity : in the city of New York, in the summer and autumn of 1820 / by Richard Pennell.

  • Pennell, Richard, -1861
Date:
1821
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Credit: An inaugural essay on the bilious typhus which prevailed in Bancker-Street and its vicinity : in the city of New York, in the summer and autumn of 1820 / by Richard Pennell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We might go on to enumerate authorities in support of our position, that fevers, in every respect similar to that which forms the subject of this discourse, have repeatedly been observed in other parts of the world. For the present we shall content ourselves with the fol- lowing observation : We are informed, by Lind, that the most frequent and fatal diseases in the sickly [wet] season, in Guinea, are n^t of an inflammatory nature ; but generally of a bilious type, attended with a low fever, sometimes of a malignant, at other times, of a remittent kind. The pulse was always low, and the brain and nerves seemed principally affected. There was a tendency to remission. The disease began sometimes with a vomiting—often with a delirium, follow- ed by coma—sunken pulse—skin became yellow—frequent bilious vomitings and stools—Expired sometimes in forty- eight hours—generally in fourteen days. Venesection was not admissible, but emetics were used with benefit*. * Lind on the Diseases incidental to Europeans in hot climate?, p. 72, 3, S. 8, and 80,
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