Some observations on the bilious fevers of 1797, 1798, & 1799 / by Richard Pearson.

  • Richard Pearson
Date:
1799
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Credit: Some observations on the bilious fevers of 1797, 1798, & 1799 / by Richard Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    OB SEE VA TIOJVS, HOEVER has been much engaged ia ^ ^ the practice of phyfic in this country, during the laft three years, muft have had fre- quent opportunity of feeing a fever, which, under certain circumftances, is propagated by contagion, in many places prevails epi- demically, is very irregular in its type, and diverfified in its fymptoms; but which, from its leading phenomena, may be termed a Bilious Fever. It commonly appears under the form of a remittent; fometimes, however, it is of a continued type, even from the firft; and in moft inftances it is more or lefs fo during its height. In its mildeft degrees, and as the patient advances towards recovery, its form is intermittent. It anfwers to the following defcription : A perfon (fometimes after a flight indif- pofltion which pafles for a cold, fometimes B without