Handbook for yellow fever : describing its pathology and treatment, as observed in unintermitted practice during half a century : to which is adjoined a brief history of pestilential cholera and a method of cure, as detailed in a series of official reports made during the prevalence of the epidemic in the island of Trinidad in 1854 / by Thomas Anderson.

  • Anderson, Thomas, 1819-1874.
Date:
MDCCCLXVI [1866]
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Credit: Handbook for yellow fever : describing its pathology and treatment, as observed in unintermitted practice during half a century : to which is adjoined a brief history of pestilential cholera and a method of cure, as detailed in a series of official reports made during the prevalence of the epidemic in the island of Trinidad in 1854 / by Thomas Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    rentJy sui generis. ]5y various nomenclatures it has been styled—Yellow Fever, Typhus Icte- rodes, Bnlam Fever; and by the Spanish writers vomito jorieto, from its distinguishing symptom of black vomit. The diagnostic marks of this, or true yellow fever, were as follows:—Unlike the ordinary bilious fever, it was not variably protracted; or if so in rare cases, was more regular in its course, requiring more prompt and attentive means of treatment to arrest and subdue, and much more fatal in its termination. Such were its ravag-es at first that a sort of panic ensued. It was also not endemial, but an occasional visitant, at in- tervals varying more or less from ten, fifteen, or twenty years, invading in an epidemic form and rapidly assuming its characteristic type— easily distinguished by an experienced observer. Thus my first cases occurred in 1817 ; but it is important to remark that an identical fever had visited Barbados the year before, where it had carried off a large proportion of the 2ud, or Queen's regiment. The epidemic was rife in Port of Spain, the vicinity, and in the harbour, from the beginning of July till October, when it began to decline, but continued to spread over