An account of the contagious epidemic yellow fever, which prevailed in Philadelphia in the summer and autumn of 1797 : comprising the questions of its causes and domestic origin, characters, medical treatment, and preventives / by Felix Pascalis Ouviere, M.D. ; corresponding member of the Medical Society of Connecticut, and resident member of the Philadelphia Academy of Medicine.

  • Félix Pascalis Ouvière
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1798
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Credit: An account of the contagious epidemic yellow fever, which prevailed in Philadelphia in the summer and autumn of 1797 : comprising the questions of its causes and domestic origin, characters, medical treatment, and preventives / by Felix Pascalis Ouviere, M.D. ; corresponding member of the Medical Society of Connecticut, and resident member of the Philadelphia Academy of Medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    upon our minds, the important truths of the dan- gerous effects of any kind of effluvia from cor- rupted vegetable or animal fubftances, which are fo often unavoidably engendered in the cargoes of mips coming from tropical countries in the hot feafons of the year. Of this, there are as many inftances as there are eminent medical writers, on the fubjecl: of contagion. Secondly, The importation of the yellow fe- ver cannot be doubted, when it is fo often known to have raged on board of veflels both at fea and |n port. Indeed, the French have derived their name of this fever, from its peculiar frequency among feaman ; and feveral of their writers have called it la matelote. Be this as it may, two rea- fons are obvious, even in our opinion, to render the yellow fever more frequent among feamen. One is, that they are conftantly predifpofed to bilious complaints, as we (hall hereafter explain; and the other, that they are continually expofed to putrid exhalations. Thirdly, If thefe towns and places had not re- ceived, the contagion from tropical countries, we mould find in our hiftorical records more frequent inftances of a malady that is fuppofed to be of a domeftic origin. Formerly our fummers were frill hotter, and more infupportable than they are at prefent; and our towns, or rather villages, were destitute of any improvement,were often filthy and peceflarily neglecled - vet they were remarkably
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