A second address to the citizens of Philadelphia, containing additional proofs of the domestic origin of the malignant bilious, or yellow fever : to which are added, observations, intended to shew that a belief in that opinion, is calculated to lessen the mortality of the disease, and to prevent its recurrence / by Benjamin Rush.

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Date:
1799
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Credit: A second address to the citizens of Philadelphia, containing additional proofs of the domestic origin of the malignant bilious, or yellow fever : to which are added, observations, intended to shew that a belief in that opinion, is calculated to lessen the mortality of the disease, and to prevent its recurrence / by Benjamin Rush. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    difeafe, before he difcovered the changes -which had been induced upon it by the weather. 3. The fymptoms of the bilious fever are varied by the age, fex, and habit. It is feldom exactly alike in any two perfons. It generally appears with the mod force, in a part of the body which has been previoufly fubject to weaknefs, or difeafe. Perfons of robuft habits fuffer mofl from it. Hence it appears in its mofl: malignant form in new comers in the Weft Indies, while in the Creoles or na- tives, and in perfons whofe bodies have been afh- milated to the climate by ten or twelve years refi- dence in the Iilands, it puts on the form of a mild remittent. It is common for phyficians to defcribe what they called pathognomonic, or character!flic fymp- toms of the yellow fever. But from the circum- ftances that have been mentioned which vary this difeafe, it would be nearly as abfurd to expect the fame form and dimenfions of a cloud under every variety of weather and feafon, as to expect an epidemic with exactly the fame fymptoms in every country, in every year, and in every conftitution. Thefe proportions being admitted, I go on to remark that a malignant bilious fever is fomethino- like