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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    CflAPy III. - ^ t- METHOD of. CURE. sEgiv. I,, • ■ ■: •5 t.i i\:T.the,beg,inpir%.of ^he feygr, Or. inSarms “5*, that • moderaS^e. 'b;^dipgs ,ap’d.ifm^lltt dofes of mercurial purges were in femai cafes’/uccefsfuli but that they afterwards failed; and that he was baffled ,i%ev^ry,attempj^to ftopthq^ravages of., the diford.qr, tiptil, he,,w^§. entcou^age^ to adop^. the tIieory.and w^bi^h ,%dlioAecr the^.vipjent; eyacyatlng.plan^ * ^ ' --- i . On the^ authority of Clark, Pringk, Cleghorp,, he had confiderable depe^ence; but Kis clfief voucher for the/afety and efficacy of xalo* meland jalap,> dpfes ,he .calls ‘and ’ten, was, tl?e praajce_ of Dr, Ypung^ a'fenipr7urgeon in the hofpitals in the late war, Muc^h earlier authori¬ ty, however, might have been found, or recolleaed,’ for the exhibition. of rnercury, bpth on partial and general indication. Sir Tlieod, Mayerne, a ' hun- • Ruth on Bilious Yellow Fever, p. 1^7, & feq.