A treatise concerning the malignant fever in Barbados, and the neighbouring islands: with an account of the seasons there, from the year 1734 to 1738. In a letter to Dr. Mead / By Henry Warren, M.D.

  • Warren, Henry.
Date:
MDCCXLI. [1741]
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Credit: A treatise concerning the malignant fever in Barbados, and the neighbouring islands: with an account of the seasons there, from the year 1734 to 1738. In a letter to Dr. Mead / By Henry Warren, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    boafted Method of Cure, the Fever has fre¬ quently been of the ordinary Inflammatory Clafs. A long and follicitous Attention to the Rife, Nature, Symptoms, Progrefs, and Iflue of this fatal Difeafe, has (I flatter my- felf) furnished me with fuch Lights and Observations, as may' be of fome Import¬ ance and Service to my Fellow-fubjedts; and I have, from my own Experience, juft Reafon to believe, that a conformable Pra¬ ctice will feldom fail of being attended with Succefs, provided the Phyfician be called very early, and no Adminiftrations offered before he comes, particularly, Bleeding, Bli- Ilering, Vomiting, Purging, or Anodynes. I am of opinion, that this Fever is truly of the Pejiilential Kind, and ought pro¬ perly to be called by no other Denomi¬ nation. It refembles, very nearly (except that the Condition of the Blood is not the fame) the Peftilential Fever defcribed by Dr. Sydenham, which continued for fome time after the Plague of London; and it is attended with many Appearances, peculiar to the Plague itfelf; the Plague-boil and the Rapidity and Ferocity of the Symptoms only excepted ; fo that it feems to differ from it only in Degree, but not in Species. The French call it fometimes, La Maladie de Siam, from a Country of that Name in the EaJl-IndieSy where it is a conftant In¬ habitant ; fometimes they call it, La Fievre A 2 Mate-