A short account of the origin, symptoms, and most approved method of treating the putrid bilious yellow fever, vulgarly called the black vomit : which appeared in the city of Havanna, with the utmost violence, in the months of June, July, and part of August, 1794 / as practised by Mr. John Holliday, an English surgeon, resident in that city.

  • Holliday, John.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A short account of the origin, symptoms, and most approved method of treating the putrid bilious yellow fever, vulgarly called the black vomit : which appeared in the city of Havanna, with the utmost violence, in the months of June, July, and part of August, 1794 / as practised by Mr. John Holliday, an English surgeon, resident in that city. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ticiilaily after taking fomething to quench the thirft; the anxiety and unaafinefs then increafed, with vom- iting a great abundance of bilious matter, the Ikin hot and dry, intenfe heat, with pain in the region of the precordia, the refpiration difficult, and the urine high- coloured and little in quantity : the fymptoms contin- ued twenty-four or forty-eight hours, and at times I have feen them endure until the third or fourth day, diifering in fome of the fymptoms, together with the times of its duration, according to the age, conflitu- tion, or malignity with which it had increafed : when in the midll of thefe complicated and violent fymp- toms, there was an apparent ceffation, and total relief from them, a flight perturbation and inclination to Sleep only remaining. From fuch favourable appearances, we prognofticat- ed we had gained the defired crifis, and a total intermif- fion of the difeafe ; but, to the misfortune of the un- happy patient, at this time (by a minute examination) we obferved on the white of the eyes a flight yellow- ifh tinge, and fucceffively in every other part of the body, accompanied with a perturbation of the intel- leftual functions, a gloffy appearance of the eyes, the anxioufnefs and vomiting were augmented in fuch a manner, that they impeded the adminiftration of nour- Khment or medicine : At this time, inftead of expe- riencing that irrefiftible and burning heat which was before complained of, the patient feels chilly, and the cutis is alternately dry and moift, the pulfe finking and very irregular, the urine of an high croceous ap- pearance, and at times refembling liquid and corrupt- ed blood, depofiting, as I have often feen, a black and ofFenfive fediment: The tongue is in fome, dry, parch- B ed,