Observations on the inflammatory endemic, incidental to strangers in the West Indies from temperate climates commonly called the yellow fever ... to which is added an appendix, containing abstracts of official reports upon West India fevers / [Nodes Dickinson].
- Dickinson, Nodes, 1776-1855
- Date:
- 1819
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the inflammatory endemic, incidental to strangers in the West Indies from temperate climates commonly called the yellow fever ... to which is added an appendix, containing abstracts of official reports upon West India fevers / [Nodes Dickinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![pears in a state as if lie were recovering, when all at once a fresh attack takes place, and carries him off/' 44 These fevers arise sometimes from putre- faction, sometimes from cold, sometimes from infection.* Dr. Fordyce, next alluding to the conduct of practitioners, after noticing the remedies employed by them, already recurred to [page 19], proceeds to remark that 44 it would hardly ever be prudent to take away blood, and a large evacuation by purging is very detri- mental, instead of being useful in this disease: it is imprudent to exhibit mercury in these most violent fevers/' 44 The author (he continues,) can say no- thing from his own experience, but should be disposed, at the moment of the attack of such a disease, to employ as great a dose of tar- tarized antimony, as the patient could bear without producing nausea.-f* These observations on the nature and treat- ment of West-India- Yellow Fever, proceeding from a guide, whom the writer of these pages](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28741365_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
