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

  • Holliday, John.
Date:
1795
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Credit: A short account of the origin, symptoms, and most approved method of treating the putrid bilious fever, vulgarly called the black vomit: which appeared in the city of the Havanna, with the utmost violence, in the months of June, July and part of August, 1794. As practiced by Mr. John Holliday, an English surgeon resident in that city / [John Holliday]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    METHOD OF TREATING THE BILIOUS PUTRID FEVER, &c. I * In the month of June, 1794, the fhip Lord Stanley, Captain Farquhar, laden with Ne- groes, and her Crew enjoying the moft perfect health, arrived at the Havanna; this felicity was of fo little duration, that after a few days of her arrival, Ihe fuffered fo much from the above diforder, that, in the courfe of fifteen or fixteen days, flie loft nineteen out of twenty- four officers and feamen that fell fick. The diforder fucceffively made its progrefs no£ only in the different Men of War and Ships in that harbour, but alfo in the city and country places, fo that in about two months, more than two thoufand perfons amongft the different ranks of people fell a facrifice to it; there were fhips of three and four hundred B % men.