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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2. HEAT, from every cause, but more especially the heat of the sun, was a very common exciting cause of the disorder. It aided the stimulus of the contagion in bringing on indirect debility. The re|gister of the weather during the latter end of Au|gust—the whole of September, and the first two weeks in October, will shew how much the heat of the sun must have contributed to excite the dis|ease, more especially among labouring people. The heat of common fires, likewise became a fre|quent cause of the activity of the contagion, where it had been received into the body; hence the greater mortality of the disease among bakers, blacksmiths, and hatters, than among any other class of people.3. INTEMPERANCE in eating or drinking. A plentiful meal, and a few extra-glasses of wine, sel|dom failed of exciting the fever. But where the body was strongly impregnated with the contagion, even the smallest deviation from the customary stimulus of diet, in respect to quality or quantity, roused the contagion into action. A supper of twelve oysters in one, and only three, in another of my patients, produced the disease. A half an ounce of meat rendered the contagion active in a lady, who had lived by my advice for two 0