A treatise on the yellow fever, as it appeared in the Island of Dominica, in the years 1793-4-5-6: to which are added, observations on the bilious remittent fever, on intermittents, dysentery, and some other West India diseases; also, the chemical analysis and medical properties of the hot mineral waters in the same island / By James Clark, M.D.

  • Clark, James, -1819.
Date:
1797
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Credit: A treatise on the yellow fever, as it appeared in the Island of Dominica, in the years 1793-4-5-6: to which are added, observations on the bilious remittent fever, on intermittents, dysentery, and some other West India diseases; also, the chemical analysis and medical properties of the hot mineral waters in the same island / By James Clark, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t The bowels feem to be contracted and drawn backwards, or cramped as the pa- tient generally1 expreffes it. In the courfe of twelve or twenty-four hours the pain fometimes becomes fo excruciating, that the poor fufferer falls into convulfions, which is always a fymptom of great dan- ger, and in which I have known inftances * ; r* « e>f people expiring.—The torments of thofe labouring under this difeafe are beyond conception, and excite th? 'commiferation of all \Vho attend them, which is pro- bably Cthc reafon, that practitioners have fo often fCcourfeto opium for their relief.— A ^difficulty 8iJ voiding the urine comes on, hrfS foffietifiaes a total fupnreffion of it.— Cfyfters are hever Retained long, and when the dilbal§ ' continues fpr twenty-four or thihy-fix* hours with great violence, the anus is often , fo much contracted, that a Clyffier-pipe cannot be introduced, without great difficulty. The retching and vomiting frequently becaiiie fo violent, that even ano~ dyne draughts' vtfere inftaritly thrown up. The pulfe was! always natural during the hrft twelve or twenty-four hours of the dif- eafe,