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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    Waters, which are to be found in raoft of thefe iflands, fhould be flrongly recom- mended. i f _ r < - f a>* t- c • jM s f % 4 . ' i ^ Section II. Of the Cc&e. WA rm fomentations, applied to the ab- domen, afforded only a momentary allevia- tion of the pain, as did the femicupium, which always weakened the patient and was feldom repeated.—Clyfters were always given and frequently repeated, but to little purpofe,—A blifler applied over the epigaf- tric region fometimes flopped the vomiting, by which means mild purgatives, as fal. cathart. amarus, or an emulfion of caflor- oil was retained on the ftomach, and bein^ frequently repeated, had at lafl the defired effedl.—But as bliflering had not often this good effed, and tended to increafe the fuf- ferings of the patient, I have laid it afide for many years pafl.—Draflic purges al- ways increafed the vomiting, and never an- fwered the purpofe for which they were given, I 4 Two