A description of the American yellow fever, which prevailed at Charleston, in South Carolina, in the year 1748 / by Doctor John Lining, physician at Charleston.

  • Lining, John, 1708-1760.
Date:
1799
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Credit: A description of the American yellow fever, which prevailed at Charleston, in South Carolina, in the year 1748 / by Doctor John Lining, physician at Charleston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    warmer or more rainy (and fome of them lefs fo) than the fummcrs and autumns were in feveral other years, in which we had not one inftance of any one being feized with this fever ; which is contrary to what would probably have happened, if particular confti- tutions of the weather were productive of it, without infectious miafmata. But that this is really an infectious difeafe, feems plain, not only from this, that almoft all the nurfes catched it and died of it; but likewife, as foon as it appeared in town, it foon invaded new- comers, thofe who never had the difeafe be- fore, and country-people when they came to town, while thofe who remained in the coun- try efcaped it, as likewife did thofe who had formerly felt its dire effects, though they walk- ed about the town, vifited the fick in all the differentjladia of the difeafe, and attended the funeral of thofe who died of it. And laftly, whenever the difeafe appeared here, it was eafily traced to fome perfon who had lately arrived from fome of the Weft-Indian lilands, where it was epidemical. Although the in- fection was fpread with great celerity through the town, yet if any from the country receiv- ed it in town, and fickened on their return home.