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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    * great alarm; but thefe fymptoms were not followed by fatal confequences, probably owing to the great care, and extraordinary attention'that was paid to thofe who were attacked in this feemingly dangerous way, I have feen many inftances of a yellow- nefs of the eyes corning on, and fpreading all over the body about the fifth day, which was at firfi: a very alarming fymptom; but by experience it wras found not to be a dan- gerous one- It ought to be obferved, how- ever, that in thefe cafes, the paroxyfms and remifiions of fever were clearly and diftind- ly marked; and alfo, that in thofe who died of it, the black-vomit never appeared, as it did conftantly and uniformly in all cafes of the yellow-fever which proved fatal. The yetlownefs coming on in a fever, with evi- dent remifiions and paroxyfms, may be therefore looked upon as only an accidental jaundice, and unconnected with it in any other way; which is far from being the cafe in the yellow-fever. Although