Some account of the last yellow fever epidemic of British Guiana / by Daniel Blair, surgeon general of British Guiana ; edited by John Davy, inspector general of army hospitals, etc.

  • Blair, Daniel.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Some account of the last yellow fever epidemic of British Guiana / by Daniel Blair, surgeon general of British Guiana ; edited by John Davy, inspector general of army hospitals, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    and convalesces on 27th; exacerbation on 1st September; again con- valesces on 3rd; has third exacerbation on the 6th; attacked by pneumonia, of which he dies on 17th September. 3827. Attacked on 20th September, convalesces on 23rd; and is discharged on 26th; relapse the same day, and is readmitted on 28th; has premonitory vomit on 29th; black vomit and epistaxis the same day, the 29th; and yellow skin on 1st October, on which day he dies. The appetites were pretty uniform, and were conformable to the stages of the disease. Cold water was the diluent most sought after during the first stage, wine was frequently liked at the close of the first stage and beginning of the second, and milk was drunk eagerly during the third.* It frequently happened when I suggested milk that the patient would remark that it was the very thing he longed for and wanted, although it bad not occurred to him to ask for it. Intense hunger was of frequent occurrence during the third stage. It was invariably a sign of evil. Febrile excitement, exhaustion after febrile excitement, and the acid elimination, aflPord a rationale of these appetites. In the great majority of cases convalescence was immediately followed by a perfect performance of all the healthy functions, and then, as also in the formative and first stage, wounds healed kindly. * [In the yellow fever of Barbados, sucking bits of ice, or sipping iced water and toast-and-water, and iced milk, either alone or diluted, were com- monly relished, and that even when there was little heat of skin or of tongue.] — En.