Remarks on some of the opinions of Dr. Rush respecting the yellow fever which prevailed in the city of Philadelphia in the year 1793 / By William Patterson.

  • Patterson, William
Date:
1795
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Credit: Remarks on some of the opinions of Dr. Rush respecting the yellow fever which prevailed in the city of Philadelphia in the year 1793 / By William Patterson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / [ VH ] of mind, tinder which Dr. Rufh generally la¬ boured, attrads our firft notice. lay down,*’ fays the Do<ftor, ** in conformity to habit only, for my bed ceafed to afford me reft or refrefh- ment. When it was evening, I wifhed for morn¬ ing ; and when it was morning, the profped of the labours of the day caufed rrie to with for die return of evening.** So great was his difcom- pofure, that he confeffes he forgot the ufual Jaws which regulate the intercourfe of man with man in the ftreets, and upon the publick roads in the neighbourhood of the city. The multitude of profellional calls, likewife, unhinged him not a little. So prelTmg have they been at times, that he has been obliged, in fpite of his humanity, to exn-icate himfelf from ftop- pages in the ftreet, by driving his chair haftily out of the reach of the importunate. Together with the numerous patients which he vifited a- broad, he frequently prefcribed for 150 perfons daily, in his own houfe, during five or fix weeks; and had but little time at night, on account of anfwering letters, to copy into his note-book the hafty obfervations made in the day, which he had marked with a pencil in a pocket-book in lick rooms, or in his carriage.