Observations on the changes of the air, and the concomitant epidemical diseases in the island of Barbadoes : to which is added, A treatise on the putrid bilious fever, commonly called the yellow fever, and such other diseases as are indigenous or endemial in the West India islands, or in the torrid zone / by William Hillary, M.D. with notes by Benjamin Rush, M.D.

  • Hillary, William, -1763.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Observations on the changes of the air, and the concomitant epidemical diseases in the island of Barbadoes : to which is added, A treatise on the putrid bilious fever, commonly called the yellow fever, and such other diseases as are indigenous or endemial in the West India islands, or in the torrid zone / by William Hillary, M.D. with notes by Benjamin Rush, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TREATISE ON SUCH DISEASES THE MOST FREQUENT IN, OR ARE PECULIAR TO THE IVES* INDIA ISLANDS, OR THE TORRID ZONE, BOTH ACUTE ANT) CHRONICAL. OF THE PUTRID BILIOUS FEVER, COMMONLY. CALLED THE YELLOW FEVER. THIS disease is most commonly known by the name of the yellow fever, from a yellowness like the Jaundice which diffuses itself all over the body of the sick, towards the latter end of the disease. The french call it la maladie de Siam, from its being frequent in the kingdom of Siam in the East Indies, which is situated between the tropics, near the same latitude with the West India islands: they also call it la fievre matelotte, because strangers and sea- faring people are the most obnoxious to it: and the Span- iards call it vomito preto, or the black vomiting, from one of its dangerous symptoms. I shall not enter into any dis- cs