An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793 / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Date:
MDCCXCIV [1794]
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Credit: An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793 / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. Heat, from every caufe, but more efpecially the heat of the fun, was a very common exciting caufe of the diforder. It aided the ftimulus of the contagion in bringing on indirect debility. The re- gifter of the weather during the latter end of Au- gUft—the whole of September, and the firft two weeks in October, will mew how much the heat of the fun muft have contributed to excite the dif- eafe, more efpecially among labouring people. The heat of common fires, likewife became a fre- quent caufe of the activity of the contagion, where it had been received into the body ; hence the er mortaliry of the difeafe among bakers, blackfmiths, and hatters, than among any other clafs of people. 3 Intemperance in eating or drinking. A plentiful meal, and a few extra-glaffes of wine, fel- dom failed of exciting the fever. But where the body was flrongly impregnated with the contagion, even the fmallefl deviation from the cuflomary ftimulus of diet, in refpeft to quality or quantity, roufed the contagion into action. A fupper of twelve oyfters in one, and of three, in another of my patients, produced the difeafe. Half an ounce of meat rendered the contagion active in a lady, who had lived by my advice for two weeks