A brief view of the yellow fever, as it appeared in Andalusia during the epidemic of 1820.

  • O'Halloran, Thomas, -1832.
Date:
1821
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Credit: A brief view of the yellow fever, as it appeared in Andalusia during the epidemic of 1820. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    convincing proof of the utility of blood-let- ting in the commencement of yellow fever: and it is a remedy which I should not hesi- tate to repeat, and have frequent recourse to, during the first days of the attack. How far the practice might be judicious after that period, and when the debility becomes great, I am not prepared to say, having never ventured to try it: but should any fu- ture practitioner feel disposed to make the attempt, he may derive encouragement from reflecting, that no experiment, however ha- zardous, can be attended with more fatal consequences than those which usually fol- low from every mode of treatment hitherto adopted. It will appear, by reference to the an- nexed Cases, that those terminated most fa- vourably in which blood-letting was used to the greatest extent; but it is incumbent on me to state, that many cases ended fatally even when the lancet had every possible advantage. The Spanish physicians were no advocates for the practice in any case. My treatment of the disease was not very successful:—theirs still less so. I lost one