A treatise on the yellow fever as it appeared in the Island of Dominica in the years 1793-4-5-6 : to which are added, observations on the bilious remittent fever, on intermittents, dysentery, and some other West India diseases : also, the chemical analysis and medical properties of the hot mineral waters in the same island / by James Clark.

Date:
1897
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Credit: A treatise on the yellow fever as it appeared in the Island of Dominica in the years 1793-4-5-6 : to which are added, observations on the bilious remittent fever, on intermittents, dysentery, and some other West India diseases : also, the chemical analysis and medical properties of the hot mineral waters in the same island / by James Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTENTS, Chap. L , Page SECTION I. Hiftory of the YELLOW FEVER, in the Ifland of Dominica - _ - . j Se£Hon 2. The Symptoms - - - - ^ Section 3. The Prognoftic - - - ^7 Section 4. Of the different names given to thisdifeafe, and the reafons aligned for them,—Alfo whether it is an imported and infectious difeafe, or whether it originated in thefe Iflands and in America from na- tural caufcs - -- -- - - -20 Section 5. Method of Cure - - - - - 23 Chap. II. Section I. Of the Method of Prevention - - - 44 Chap. III. Section i. An inquiry into the remote caufes of this FEVER at Dominica, and in the other Iflands, and in North America - - - - '49 Of the BILIOUS REMITTENT FEVER of the Weft Indies* Chap. I. Section i. The Caufe and Symptoms of this difeafe 70 Section 2. Of the Cure of the Remittent Fever - 80 Chap. II. Scaion I. Of INTERMITTENT FEVERS, their fymptoms, diftinCtions, and Method of Cure - 91 The CinchonaCaribaea, and Cinchona Brachycarpa, two fpecies of Jefuits Bark found in the Ifland of Dominica, and ufed in intermittents - - - 98 Chap. III. Seaion I, Of the TYPHUS FEVER, and Method of Cure in the Weft Indies - - - - loi Seaion