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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but lemonade or water. He adds further, that he walked from Edinburgh to London in eleven days and an half, and that he travelled with the most ease when he only breakfasted and supped, and drank nothing but water. The fatigue of riding on horseback, is prevented or lessened by abstinence from solid food. Even the horse suffers least from a quick and and long journey, when he is fed sparingly with hay. These facts add weight to the arguments formerly adduced, in favour of a vegetable diet in preventing or mitigating the action of the contagion of malig|nant fevers upon the system. In both cases the abstraction of stimulus, removes the body fur|ther from the reach of indirect debility.Food supports life as much by its stimulus, as by affording nourishment to the body. Where an artificial stimulus acts upon the system, the natural stimulus of food ceases to be necessary. Under the influence of this principle, I encreased, or diminished my food with the signs I discover|ed of the encrease, or diminution of the contagion in my body. Until the 15th of September I drank weak coffee, but after that time, I drank nothing but milk, or milk and water in the inter|vals of my meals. I was so satisfied of the efficacy of this mode of living, that I believed life 0