A description of the American yellow fever, which prevailed at Charleston, in South Carolina, in the year 1748 / by Doctor John Lining, physician at Charleston.

  • John Lining
Date:
1799
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Credit: A description of the American yellow fever, which prevailed at Charleston, in South Carolina, in the year 1748 / by Doctor John Lining, physician at Charleston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 16] beginning by proper evacuations, and by- keeping up a plentiful fweat, till the total (o- lution of the fever, by proper mild diapho- retics and diluents. But thofe who ha i not that good fortune, however tranquil things might appear at this period, (as great debi- lity and a little yellownefs in the white of the eyes, feemed then to be the chief com- plaints, excepting when the vomiting con- tinued), yet the face of affairs was foon chan- ged ; for this period was foon fucceeded by the tecond Jtadium; a ftate, though without any fever, much more terrible than the firft: the fymptoms in which were the following. VIII. i. The pulfe ^ immediately after the recefs of the fever, was very little more fre- quent than in health, but hard and fmall. However, tho' it continued fmall, it became, foon afterwards, flower and very foft; and this foftnefs of the pulfe remained as long as the pulfe could be felt. In many, in this ftage of the difeafe, the pulfe gradually fubfid- ed, until it became fcarce perceptible; and this, notwithstanding all the means ufed to fupport and fill it; and when this was the cafe, the icteritious-like fufFufion, the vo- miting
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