A short account of the origin, symptoms, and most approved method of treating the putrid bilious yellow fever, vulgarly called the black vomit : which appeared in the city of Havanna, with the utmost violence, in the months of June, July, and part of August, 1794 / as practised by Mr. John Holliday, an English surgeon, resident in that city.
- Holliday, John
- Date:
- 1796
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Credit: A short account of the origin, symptoms, and most approved method of treating the putrid bilious yellow fever, vulgarly called the black vomit : which appeared in the city of Havanna, with the utmost violence, in the months of June, July, and part of August, 1794 / as practised by Mr. John Holliday, an English surgeon, resident in that city. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 20 ] With refpect to the former, I need not call your at* tention to their own refpective writings ; but relate them as they may be found defcribed by others, and in particular in that elaborate eflay, on the agreement betwixt ancient and modern phyficians, or a compar- ison between the practice of Hippocrates and Galen, Sydenham and Boerhaave in acute difeafes; intended to fhew what the practice of phyfic in fuch diftempers ought to be—by John Barker, phyfician to the Britifh army, and fellow of the Royal College of Phyficians. As facts are ftubborn things, neither requiring proofs to confirm, nor fuffering objections to invali- date them ; it may feem unneceffary to offer any thing on the fubject : But as 1 have jtift faid that the method adopted is fo very concife as well as uncom- mon j it is feared, that it may not meet with, the at- tention it deferves and its magnitude requires. Our author not only informs us of the fuccefsful method, which he adopted, but candidly gives his reafons for departing from the methods purfued by mmfelf and other phyficians in the ifland, on finding them unfuccefsful j for he fays in page nth, Mov- ed with compaflion and always in hopes of future fuc- cefs, I thought with many -others, that by the fulnefs of the pulfe, together with other inflammatory fymp- toms, which the diforder manifefled, the patient could probably be relieved by bleeding j which method I immediately put in practice, ufing it from the leffer to the greateft degree, on a great number of patients, but without the leaft probable benefit, rather on the con- trary hurrying on their miferable exiftence. Now if we look; into what Hippocrates has faid on this fubject, we](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21129186_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
