An essay on the disease called yellow fever : with observations concerning febrile contagion, typhus fever, dysentery, and the plague, partly delivered as the Gulstonian lectures, before the Collge of Physicians, in the years 1806 and 1807. / By Edward Nathaniel Bancroft.
- Edward Nathaniel Bancroft
- Date:
- 1811
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Credit: An essay on the disease called yellow fever : with observations concerning febrile contagion, typhus fever, dysentery, and the plague, partly delivered as the Gulstonian lectures, before the Collge of Physicians, in the years 1806 and 1807. / By Edward Nathaniel Bancroft. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of it, ami of the fa3ces: the pulse becomes feeble and intermits; the breathing is laborious; portions of the skin assume a livid colour, the extremities grow cold; and life is gradually extinguished. This isa cneral outline of the Yellow Fever, •when it appears in its most violent form; and in this form it sometimes proceeds with so much rapidity as to destroy the patient on the third or fourth day, or even sooner, but the disorder fre- <]ueiitly appears in a milder form at first; the course being protracted into several paroxysms, shorter at first, and followed by more distinct that, in most of those cases of injury to the spine, or disease of the bladder, in which this viscus loses the power of contrac- tion, it also soon loses its governing power, and the urine is voided in a putrescent state, like that voided in severe cases of fever. Two distinguished modern physiologists have stated it as their belief, that the stomach and intestines had, under certaii^ circumstances, a power of secreting air; but even their au- thority has not removed tlie objections to that opinion which jppeared to me to exist j and the generation of the air in ques- tion will, perhaps, be more satisfactorily explained by supposing that, under such circumstances, the governing power of those viscera is, in a certain degree, impaired, in consequence of which chemical decompositions of the matters contained in them begin to take place, and air is thereby evolved. It is not necessary to remind the reader of the volumes of various' gazes which can be extricated by chemical agencies, from even small masses of most of the substances usually existing in th« alimentary canal.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21304415_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
