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 / by C. Chisholm.

  • Chisholm, Colin, 1755-1825.
Date:
1795
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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 / by C. Chisholm. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the moft refpeftable writers on the Malignant Fever have found infinite difficulty in afcertaining an appro- priate mode of cure: what but this are we to infer from the following paffages: «I have obferved before, that a delirium would arife from two oppofite errors; one from large and repeated bleedings; and the other from wine and the cordial me- dicines being taken too early. It appears therefore how nice the prin- ciples are that regard the cure: thus, neither a hot nor a coo] regimen will anfwer with every patient, nor in every ftate of the difcafe. —- Yet were