Medical inquiries and observations : containing an account of the bilious and remitting and intermitting yellow fever,as it appeared in Philadelphia in the year 1794 ; together with an inquiry into the proximate cause of fever ; and a defence of blood-letting as a remedy for certain diseases / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania ; volume IV.

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Date:
1796
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Credit: Medical inquiries and observations : containing an account of the bilious and remitting and intermitting yellow fever,as it appeared in Philadelphia in the year 1794 ; together with an inquiry into the proximate cause of fever ; and a defence of blood-letting as a remedy for certain diseases / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania ; volume IV. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    yielded only to frequent bleedings. In the third, it appeared with fymptoms of pleurify, which was attended with a conflant hemorrhage from the ute- rus, although blood was drawn almoft daily from her arm for fix or feven days. About the middle of this month many people complained of a ficknefs at flomach, which in fome cafes produced a puking, without any fymptoms of fever. During the month of Augufl, I was called to Peter Denham, Mrs. Bruce, a fon of Jacob Grib- ble's, Mr. Cole, John Madge, Mrs. Gardiner, Mifs Purdon, Mrs. Gavin, and Benjamin Cochran, each of whom had all the ufual fymptoms of the yellow fever. I found Mr. Cochran fitting on the fide of his bed, with a pot in his hand, into which he was difcharging black bile from his flomach, on the 6th day of the diforder. He died on the next day. Mrs. Gavin died on the 6th day of her diforder, from a want of fufficient bleeding, to which flie ob- jected from the influence of her friends. Befides the above perfons, I vifited Mr. George Eyre at Kenfington, Mr. Thomas Fitzfimons, and Thomas M'Kean, jun. fon of the chief juftice of Pennfyl- vania, all of whom had the diforder, but in a mo- derate degree. From none of them had 1 as yet obferved the fever to be propagated by contagion, and therefore I took no fleps to alarm my fellow- citizens