A short account of the origin, symptoms, and most approved method of treating the putrid bilious yellow fever, vulgarly called the black vomit : which appeared in the city of Havanna, with the utmost violence, in the months of June, July, and part of August, 1794 / as practised by Mr. John Holliday, an English surgeon, resident in that city.

  • Holliday, John.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A short account of the origin, symptoms, and most approved method of treating the putrid bilious yellow fever, vulgarly called the black vomit : which appeared in the city of Havanna, with the utmost violence, in the months of June, July, and part of August, 1794 / as practised by Mr. John Holliday, an English surgeon, resident in that city. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fiiort, but compendious relation of the fymptoms, to- gether with the method of cure, which I adopted with the greateft fuccefs on one hundred and fifty perfons. The diforder, as I have faid, firfl: of all appeared on board the mip Lord'Stanley, though I believe, by in- formation which I afterwards had, it originated in a veffel from Philadelphia, where it raged with great violence. On the 6th day of June, there fell fick eleven men of the Lord Stanley, arid the number in- creafed, as I have already mentioned. The fymptoms of the diforder were various, and in fome,' it termina- ted life in twenty-four hours from the firfl: attack, and with others, it endured until the tenth day. The chara&eriftic fymptoms of the difeafe, as it {hewed itfelf in this City, were as follows: The day preced- ing its attack, the patient commonly feels a heavinefs, wearinefs, a general debility in the whole body, yawn- ing, and want of appetite ; the day following, or on the night of the firfl indifpofition, the violence of the diforder begins thus : the patient will be found per- plexed, urieafy, generally with flight pains in different parts of the body, particularly in the head, loins, &c. accompanied with a fmall chillinefs in the extremities, (although there were many who did not feel this) at- tributing this to a flight cold, until unexpectedly he is feized with a fevere degree of fever, with a great heat all over the body, a fluming in the face, heavinefs and rednefs in the eyes, and a longing after frefh air, the tongue white, and exceffive third, interior pains of the head, &c. the pulfe quick, full, and hard, at times, feeble and irregular, a naufea, heavinefs, and , an uneafy fcnfation in the ftomach, from the begin- ning, and the whole increafing with the diforder, par- ticularly