An inquiry into the various sources of the usual forms of summer & autumnal disease in the United States, and the means of preventing them : to which are added, Facts, intended to prove the yellow fever not to be contagious / by Benjamin Rush, M.D.

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Date:
1805
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Credit: An inquiry into the various sources of the usual forms of summer & autumnal disease in the United States, and the means of preventing them : to which are added, Facts, intended to prove the yellow fever not to be contagious / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    autumnal fevers. Dr. Ambrose Parey says, an un- usually rapid growth of mushrooms once preceded the plague in Paris. II. The premonitory signs of an approaching malignant epidemic in the human body are, 1. A sudden drying up, or breaking out of an old sore; fresh eruptions in different parts of the body; a cessation of a chronic disease, or a conver- sion of a periodical into a continual disease. Of this there were many instances in Philadelphia, in the year 1793. 2. A peculiar sallowness of the complexion. This was observed to be general in Philadelphia, previous to the yellow fever of 1793. Dr. Dick informed me, that he had observed the same ap- pearance in the faces of the people of Alexandria, accompanied in some cases with a yellowness of the eyes, during the summer of 1793, and previous to the appearance of a violent bilious fever on the banks of the Potowmuc. 3. I have observed one or more of the following symptoms, namely, head-ach; a decay, or increase