Observations on the causes and cure of remitting or bilious fevers : to which is annexed, an abstract of the opinions and practice of different authors ; and an appendix, exhibiting facts and reflections relative to the synochus icteroides, or yellow fever / by William Currie, Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, &c.

  • Currie, William, 1754-1828.
Date:
1798
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    of all the fouthern dates. Uyfentery, dropfy, and fe- vers accompanied with malignant fymptoms, are like- wife more frequent in the fouthern, than in the eaftern or middle flates ; and the courfe of the fever in the former in general, is more certainly checked in its early fta;^e by the Peruvian bark, than in the latter. Virginia lies about half vi'av between New-York and Savannah, and the general eiFeds of its climate on the coin'.non endemic of the country, correfponds in a great nicafure with its local fituation. Deviations from the tertian type are more frequent here than in New-York, but Icfs fo than in Georgia. Sporadic casks of remitting fever occur at Phila- delphia, in the fpring, and early part of fummer. Du- ring thofe foafons, they are generally accompanied with inflammatory fymptoms, and the remiflions are very imperfect and obfcure for the firfl: three or four days, after which they become more evident, and in a few days more, unlefs prevented by improper treatment or conduct, change to complete intermittents, which are readily removed by the ufe of the bark. In the cafiss Vvhich occur in t'le vernal and fummer feafons, bilious fymptoms are feldom obfervable, ex- cept at the accellion of the fever, or with thofe fymp- toms which ufiier it in. Naulea and occafional puking, are common at the acceflion of every fpecies of fever, whether inflamma-i tory, nervous, or intermitting : Under thefe circum- flances more or lefs bile is generally ejected, but as this is merely the effecl, and not the caufe of the vomiting, and as the evacuation of bile in any form or variety of remitting fever, is only a fymptom, and not a caufe of the difeafe, there is no propriety in naming the fever bilious, in which it only occafionally and under parti- cular, or accidental circumftances becomes a predomi- nant fymptom. With the fiime propriety it might be denominated inflammatory in thofe cafes where the pulfc is ilrong and quick, the {kin hot and drv during B ' the