Observations on the means of improving the medical police of the City of New-York : delivered as an introductory discourse, in the hall of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, on the sixth of November, 1820.

  • Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
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[1820?]
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    miasmata, which these very writers contend are necessary to the production of yellow fever. In confirmation of this tact, and of the errors to which this unitarian doctrine leads its votaries, I observe that within a few days, and since the appearance of frost, which they unanimously admit at once ex- tinguishes the more fatal form of yellow fever, some of their deluded followers have gravely reported to our Board of Health, as cases of yellow fever. the ordinary examples of a bilious remittent!— Uninstructed in the distinctions of fever, it is not matter of surprise that they can thus intermingle names and things. From this dilemma they have no escape: but their absurdities are not limited to this example : a late pamphleteer has gone so far as to confound the yellow fever with the common bowel complaints of children, proceeding from heat and dentition. I cannot consent seriously to notice this daring assertion, made by those who acknowledge no distinction between one form of fever and another, and who can confound the effects of heat alone with the other causes of disease, and which I had almost said the youngest pupil in my hearing knows to be at variance with fact. When the writers referred to shall have atten- tively perused the pages of Lind, Pringle, Blane, Lempnere, Niell, and Pym, who have most abun- dantly drawn the distinguishing characters of bilious and ynllow fever, and whose diagnostics are denved from the bed-side of the sick, not the abstract productions of the writing desk, thev