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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    TO THE PUBLIC. » \VhEN I was lately at the Havanna, the following, mode of treating the Yellow-Fever, had, by its fuc-, cefs, become the theme of general converfation : The ravages this diforder committed in Jamaica, were too recent in my memory, for me to pafs unnoticed fo in- terefting an account. I accordingly obtained the Re- cipes, and with them, moil undoubted and authentic teftimonies. The following letter will fhew why I cannot lay the latter before the Public at this time. Humanity induces me to this Publication, and if, on a fair trial, the Medicines are found to be ufeful in rem- edying the fatal Malady, the knowledge of having been of fervice to my fellow-creatures, will prove an ample recompenfe to Their obedient Servant, William Hunted Montego-Bay, loth June, 1795. Jtfit. William Hunter Sir, THE Spanifh Certificate which you gave me on Friday before the Fire to tranflate into Englifh, rela- tive to the Medicines made ufe of at the Havanna, to cure the Yellow Fever, is miflaid among my papers, but