A treatise on the synochus icteroides, or yellow fever; as it lately appeared in the city of Philadelphia. : Exhibiting a concise view of its rise, progress and symptoms, together with the method of treatment found most successful; : also remarks on the nature of its contagion, and directions for preventing the introduction of the same malady, in future. / By William Currie, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and member of the American Philosophical Society.

Title: A treatise on the synochus icteroides, or yellow fever; as it lately appeared in the city of Philadelphia. : Exhibiting a concise view of its rise, progress and symptoms, together with the method of treatment found most successful; : also remarks on the nature of its contagion, and directions for preventing the introduction of the same malady, in future. / By William Currie, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and member of the American Philosophical Society.

Author: Currie, William, 1754-1828.

Collection: Evans Early American Imprint Collection

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night for at least a fortnight. By this time every particle of contagion will be perfectly extinguished, especially if the air of the room had been greatly heated immediately before the admission of fresh air: for by great heat it is attenuated and dissipated, and by cooler and pure air entirely changed in its nature and qualities, if there is any faith to be put in the experiments of the committee of physicians ap|pointed by the empress of Russia, to super|intend the hospitals, when a pestilential fever prevailed at Moscow in the year 1771, related by Mertens in his medical history of that dis|ease: or if the observations of the experienced Lind, and the intelligent Russel, are to be cre|dited.For greater security, the walls of the house where infected persons have lain, should al|ways be white-washed with lime, and a quan|tity of the same article should be thrown into the privies, as it is a certain corrector of conta|gion and putrefaction, as well as destructive to every species of animalcule.0