An account of the yellow fever, with a successful method of cure / by James Bryce, surgeon, late of the Busbridge East Indiaman.

  • Bryce, James, 1766-1826.
Date:
1796
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the yellow fever, with a successful method of cure / by James Bryce, surgeon, late of the Busbridge East Indiaman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    Again; as to the nature of the dif- eafe, one clafs of Phyficians have con- fldered it as highly putrid, and requi- ring to be treated with bark, wine, and opium. Another party, of whom Dr Rufh is one, hold it to be inflamma- tory, and to be cured by means of early,long, and continued evacuations; chiefly by bleeding and purging: and deem bark and opium abfolute poifons in it. A third party, which is that of the French Phyficians, prefcribe mo- derate evacuations and gentle cordials. And a fourth, or rather Dr Chiftiolm, recommend moderate evacuations and cordials, merely as preparatory for a mercurial falivation, on which alone they feem willing at all times to reft the cure of the difeafe. In