An essay on the disease called yellow fever : with observations concerning febrile contagion, typhus fever, dysentery, and the plague, partly delivered as the Gulstonian lectures, before the Collge of Physicians, in the years 1806 and 1807. / By Edward Nathaniel Bancroft.

  • Bancroft, Edward Nathaniel, 1772-1842.
Date:
1811
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Credit: An essay on the disease called yellow fever : with observations concerning febrile contagion, typhus fever, dysentery, and the plague, partly delivered as the Gulstonian lectures, before the Collge of Physicians, in the years 1806 and 1807. / By Edward Nathaniel Bancroft. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    known, that a vomiting of similar dark-coloured matters has occasionally happened suddenly to women in labour, especially in cases of rupture of the uterus, without being preceded by a vomiting of any other matters, and in patients, the coats of whose stomachs were observed to he perfectl}^ sound, upon examination after death. A relaxation of the vessels on the surface of the stomach, (which may be, and perhaps often is, accompanied with some degree of inflammation) appears to be the cause to which the effusion of blood in such instances ought to be referred: and if such relaxation may take place in the affections just mentioned, it is to be presumed, that it may also take place in a disease of so debilitating a nature as the Yellow Fever, which is sometimes seen to occasion hgemorrhages from many other internal surfaces. On these grounds, therefore, it seems not improbable, that a relaxa- tion of the vessels of the stomach had existed in most, or all of those cases of this fever, in which the black vomit occurred with little or no pre- vious-vomiting, or in which the coats of the stomach were entire. I must, however, remark, that in the accounts of dissections of patients dead of the Yellow Fever, which have come to my knowledge, I have found the cases just de- scribed to bear only a very small proportion to the mimber of those in which injury had been done