An essay on the bilious epidemic fever, prevailing in the state of New-York : to which is added, a letter from Dr. James Mann, surgeon-general to the Army; and a dissertation by Dr. John Stearns, delivered before the state medical society,on the same subject ; with notes and observations on these productions / by Christopher C. Yates.

  • Yates, Christopher C., 1778?-1848.
Date:
1813
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Credit: An essay on the bilious epidemic fever, prevailing in the state of New-York : to which is added, a letter from Dr. James Mann, surgeon-general to the Army; and a dissertation by Dr. John Stearns, delivered before the state medical society,on the same subject ; with notes and observations on these productions / by Christopher C. Yates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This symptom, however, frequently arises from ple- theora, or turgid matter in the stomach and bowels. Prooks, in treating of those fevers, says the ancients called them continued, quotidian, serous fevers; that at the beginning of this disease, the foce of the patient has a morbid aspect, and he is out of order three or four days before he takes to his bed. He complains of a spontaneous weariness, a grievous pain of his body and joints as if his bones were bruised or broken; his strength is languid his appetite is lost, he has a slight fainting fit, a cardialgic nausea, a pain in the head, an unquiet sleep, with costiveness. In the evening there is a coldness and shivering, followed by heat, the symp- toms increase—there is a great loss of strength. The pain in the head grows worse, with a giddiness and in- quietude. Some have a violent pain in the back, others in the side, the pulse contracted, quick and weak, anxiety about the precordia, and the breathing difficult. Wilson describes malignant fever as coming with a troublesome head ache, acute pain in the back, loins and extremities, which often resembles a rheumatic af- fection ; a distressing sense of weariness, much thirst and nausea, sometimes attended with a burning pain of the stomach, more frequently by vomiting, vertigo, dimness of sight and numbness of the extremities.* These authorities have been introduced nbt from an intention to support what I had formerly said on the subject, but merely to shew that the prevailing fever has a stronger similitude to the bilious, malignant, or * This symptom I should have mentioned as occurring sometimes in the prevailing fever.