Review of "An essay on the bilious epidemic fever, prevailing in the state of New-York, by Christopher C. Yates" / with additional remarks, by a physician.

  • Low, James, 1781-1822.
Date:
1813
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Credit: Review of "An essay on the bilious epidemic fever, prevailing in the state of New-York, by Christopher C. Yates" / with additional remarks, by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of facts. This inference acquires additional strength from the consideration that two other physiciansof extensive practice were absent from Albany on a vi- sit to New-York at the very same time, when Dr. Yates says the Epidemic prevailed with undiminish- ed malignity. Not so in the winter. Not a physi- cian dared then to desert his post; in confirmation of this I will state one fact. A Mr. Nehemiah Pratt on the western turnpike, three miles from Albany, was seized with the Epidemic in January; with muchin- treaty he was able to procure but three or four visits from different Physicians in Albany ; his messengers repeatedly afterwards requested and urged every practitioner they could find to visit Mr. Pratt, but in vain. The sick man was suffered to languish four days without any medical aid, when he died. No party of pleasure, no calls of humanity could then entice any practitioner from Albany; not even Dr. Yates himself. At any other time twenty Physicians would have vied with each other to obtain this patient. But no sooner does warm weather com- mence and with it an increased malignity of the dis- ease than the Physicians leave the city almost des- titute of medical aid. The correctness of these deductions I trust the Dr. himself will not controvert. It is a remarkable fact which clearly design- ates the character of this fever, that it appeared last winter, earliest in those climates which are distinguished for the greatest severity of cold.— Hence in Vermont, and in the northern parts of this state, it occurred at the commencement of B