A few facts and observations on the yellow fever of the West Indies. By which it is shewn, that there have existed two species of fever in the West-India islands ... indiscriminately called yellow fever, but which have proceeded from very different causes. With the success attending the method of cure ... / [James Anderson].

  • Anderson, James, -1826
Date:
1798
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Credit: A few facts and observations on the yellow fever of the West Indies. By which it is shewn, that there have existed two species of fever in the West-India islands ... indiscriminately called yellow fever, but which have proceeded from very different causes. With the success attending the method of cure ... / [James Anderson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    comatofe Rate often fupervenes ; fometimes earlier. The urine is always voided in fmall quan¬ tities, and of a high colour ; accompanied with a fenfe of burning along the urethra. After twenty-four hours, or from that to forty-eight, many of the fymptoms change their appearances* The pulfe continues quick, but weaker, tremulous, generally irregular, and fometimes intermitting. The countenance acquires a yellowifh ap¬ pearance ; the tunica conj unciiva has now changed from a red to a yellow, and the up¬ per part of the breaft and neck are deeply tinged of a yellow colour. V Vomiting now becomes very frequent; and what is brought up is extremely acrid, excoriating the throat and fauces as it paffes, confifting moftly of a thick ropy fluff, of a i blackifh