A sequel to an essay on the yellow fever; principally intended to prove, by incontestable facts and important documents, that the fever, called bulam, or pestilential, has no existence as a distinct, or a contagious disease.

  • Bancroft, Edward, 1744-1821.
Date:
1817
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    Gibraltar, Cadiz, and other towns in S-pain, and recollect- ing that, besides these, I shall hereafter have occasion to introduce similar proofs ^or other purposes, I will close my • emarks upon this part of his diagnosis with observing that ^ven if it were established (contrary to the fact) that the fever in question has no remissions, still Dr. Pym, could not, with any propriety, allege the want of re- missions as a distinguishing sign of his Bulam Fever, be- cause he has himself admitted, p. 4, that the Bilious Re- mittent, in its more violent form, sometimes pi'oves fatal on the second or third day, without evident remission,^'' How, then, in this case, is the latter form of fever to b* known, as different from the other ? 4. When the Bulam Fever terminates favourably, it is tiery rarely attended with yellowness of skin y which, if it does take place, is of a veri/ pale lemon colour. p. 5. In whatever sense the above passage be understood, whether of mild cases only, or generally of cases, which, however severe they may have been, terminate in recovery, it seems to be at direct variance with the diagnostic which Dr. Pym inculcated in his instructions to Mr. Vance, surgeon to the forces (at p. 60), in the following words : Yellowness of the skin frqueently appears in had cases towards the close of the disease; it begins in the eyes, and spreads over the body, but is generally of a lighter colour than iu the Bilious Remitting Fever.