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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    17/40
    snd a half or two drams; Crabs Eyes, two fcruples ; Syrup of Violets, one ounce, mixed. And repeated it twice, thrice, and four times, (di- viding the faid dofe into three parts, allowing an in- termediate fpace of three hours between each) until I found the pulfe foft, eafy, and regular, which it will attain on the fecond or third day. Finally, to com- plete the cure, to reflore and recover the ftomach and other vifcera from their ftate of relaxation, and at the fame time, to evacuate eafily the remainc diforder, I ufed the following : Recipe.—Take Peruvian Bark, two ounces;, Snake Root, half an ounce ; mix and boil them in two pints of water, until there remains one pint and a halfT (train, and add Extract of Bark, two drams j Tinc- ture of Rhubarb, two ounces, I order that the quantity of two or three ounce> might be taken every fecond or third hour, continu- ing this or any other preparation of the Peruvian Bark, until the patient is found entirely re-eftablifhed and free from every incumbrance, which rarely ex- ceeds the flxth, eighth, or tenth day from the lirfl at- tack. When the fymptoms were violent, and appar- ently about to terminate fatally, after a plentiful evac- uation, or on the firft remiffion, I adminiflered the febrifuge mixture of the Peruvian Bark, &c. in a great quantity, and always fortunately, not having failed in one of my endeavours after I put in practice thefe fimple, though powerful Medicines. During the time this diforder laded in Vera Cruz, copies of thefe Recipes were carried thither ; and, I have the fatisfaction to add, were ufed with the greateft fuccefs in every cafe to which they were applied. FINIS.