An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania.

Title: An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania.

Author: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.

Collection: Evans Early American Imprint Collection

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of the critical sweats in the famous plague which was known by the name of the English sweating sickness, and which made its appearance in the army of Henry VII. in Milford-Haven in Wales, and spread from thence through every part of the kingdom.The principles which lead to the prevention and cure of the yellow fever and the plague, apply with equal force to the mitigation of the measles, and to the prevention or mitigation of the scarlatina anginosa, the dysentery, and the jail or hospital fe|ver. I have remarked in a former publicationMedical Inquiries and Observations, vol. ii. page 244., that a previous vegetable diet lessened the violence and danger of the measles. Dr Sims taught me seve|ral years ago, to prevent or mitigate the scarlatina anginosa, by means of gentle purges after children are infected by itMedical Memoirs, vol. i.. Purges of salts have in many instances preserved whole families and neighbour|hoods from the dysentery where they have been exposed to the contagion. During the late Ame|rican war, an emetic seldom failed of preventing an attack of the hospital fever, when given in its forming stateMedical Inquiries and Observations. London Edition, vol. i. page 211.. I have had no experience of the 0