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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Support or refute the positions advanced by Mr. Pym : he adds, that, he has seen relapses from Yellow Fever occur and terminate fatally. 22. Mr. John Niell, Surgeon in the Royal Navy, in his Report, speaking of the suppased immunity from a second attack of Yellow Fever says, I am inclined to think that such an immunity results more from age and length of residence in a tropical climate than from any protection an attack of such disease affords/' 23. Mr. Donnet, Surgeon of the Royal Navy, does not is shown by the succeeding paragraph of his Report, in which he calls the Typhus Icteroides by the English term of the Continued Yellow Fever, and then adds in a parenthesis, I say continued, because I never knew it remit.'' I do not hesitate to believe that remissions were not observed in the very aggravated fever which Mr. Tobin then witnessed for the first and the last time in the West Indies (of which farther mention will be made in the next chapter): that the Bulam or Yellow Fever, does, however, frequently remit has been already, and will again be, abundantly proved ; and it will equally be proved that the fevers on the Coast of Africa are ^ni different from, but identically the same with, those of the West Indies ; indeed this has been long and well-attested. And if these fevers be not different, the severe cases which Mr. Tobin treated in the West Indies in 1807, must obviously have been second attacks in those of his patients who had formerly had the fever of the African Coast. Concerning the latter disease, see Dr. Schotte's Description of it at Senegal; and also Dr. Robertson's Physical Journal on board His Majesty's ship Rainbow.-Part I. cap. 1 and 2. t r F 2