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.

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    DIVISION I. CHAPTER I. BEGINNING OP THE EPIDESnC. On Sunday Morning, I believe tlie 8th day of April, 1837, Dr. AUeyne and I were conversing in my house on the health of the town. He stated to me, that he had had some cases that ter- minated fatally at the time when the severity of the symptoms had ceased, and when he supposed the patient convalescent; that he had been quite taken aback by the suddenness and unexpectedness of the deaths. I, in return, stated to him, that I had at that moment a case which I believed to be yelloio fever, and proposed that we should see it together. On our way to see my patient. Dr. AUeyne suggested that we should first go to the house of Rankin, druggist, at the corner of Robb's Stel- ling. Water Street, where he had a case similar to those referred to as having ended fatally. On being seen, we agreed that this was a case of yellow fever. I now forget what were the chief symptoms present, but the patient died next morning. His name was Rainey. On proceeding to my patient, we met Dr. Hutson, and, he joining us, we examined the case. The symptoms we considered were certainly those of yellow fever, as far as our book- knowledge enabled us to decide. The name of my patient was Inch, one of two brothers, young Irishmen, who had arrived in the colony two or three months previously and acted as plantation overseers for a short time. One or two weeks before his illness, he and his brother had hired a ground floor of a house in Water Street, in the inner side of the street immediately opposite the premises of ]\Iessrs. Conyers and Harvey, and which was in no way raised off the ground, and commenced there a small shop, in whicli they sold porter, plantains, salt fish, tobacco, and such miscellaneous wares