An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793 / [Benjamin Rush].

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Date:
1796
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Credit: An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793 / [Benjamin Rush]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on the autumnal fruits, and upon vegetation in ge- neral, fhall be mentioned hereafter. E I beg pardon for the length of this introduction. Some parts of it, I hope, will not appear ufelefs in the fequel of this work. YT now enter into a detail of fome folitary cafes of the epidemic, which foon afterwards fpread dittrets through our city, and terror throughout the United States. ! On the sth of Auguft, I was requefted by Dr Hodge to vifit his child. 1 found it ill with a fever of the bilious kind, which terminated ( with a yellow fkin) in death, on the 7th of the fame month. On the 6th of Auguft, I was called to Mrs Brad- ford, the wife of Mr Thomas Bradford. She had all the fymptoms of a bilious remittent, but they were fo acute, as to require two bleedings, and feve- ral fucceflive dofes of phyfic. The laft-purge the took was a dofe of calinel, which operated plentiful- ly. For feveral days after her recovery, her eyes and face were of a yellow colour. On the fame day, I was called to the fon of Mrs M‘Nair, who had been feized violently with all the ufual fymptoms of a bilious fever. I purged him plentifully with falts and cream of tartar, and took ten or twelve ounces of blood from his arm. His fymptoms appeared to yield to thefe remedies 5 but on the roth of the month an hemorrhage from the nofe came on, and on the morning of the 12th he died. On the 7th of this month I was called to vifit - Richard Palmer, a fon of Mrs Palmer in Chefnut- ftreet. He had been indifpofed for feveral days with a fick ftomach and. vomiting atter eating. He now complained of a fever and head-ach. 1 gave him the ufual remedies for the bilious fever, and he recover-. edinafew days. On the 15th day of the fame month, | was fent for to vifit his brother William, who was feized with all the fymptoms of the fame