Category: History - American
The winter of 1797 was in general healthy. During the spring, which was cold and wet, no diseases of any consequence occurred. The spring vegetables were late in coming to maturity, and there were every where in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia scanty crops of hay. In June an...
The winter of 1797 was in general healthy. During the spring, which was cold and wet, no diseases of any consequence occurred. The spring vegetables were late in coming to matur...
3. letter I received from Dr. Davidson, dated November 4th, 1794. "Beingordered (says the doctor) up to Barbadoes, last November, upon service, I found that the troops had suffered considerably by that formidable scourge, the yellow fever. The seaso...
2. chapter xxiii. verses 12, 13, and 14. "But the flesh of the bullock, andhis skin, and his dung, shalt thou _burn with fire without the camp_." Exodus, chapter xxxix. verse 14. The advantages of thus burying and removing all putrid matters, and of bu...
7. ii. 269Hospitals, their origin, i. 55 ----, military, their evils, i. 276 ----, constructed with ground floors, to be preferred in fevers, i. 275 Heat, greatest in Philadelphia, i. 87...
6. iii. 409----, of a salivation, iii. 411 ----, of blisters, iii. 413 ----, of tonic remedies, iii. 415 ----, of the inefficacy of bark, iii. ibid. ----, of the effects of wine, iii. 418...
10. i. 279Snow, common depth in Pennsylvania, i. 91 Sweating described among the Indians of North-America, i. 22 Scarlatina anginosa of 1783 and 1784 described, i. 138 ----, additional ob...
4. iii. 151----, ----, state of the atmosphere during the prevalence of, iii. 158 ----, ----, signs of the presence of miasmata in the body, universal, iii. 157 ----, ----, cases of re-inf...
5. iii. 292----, comparative view of the success of all the modes of practice employed in the fever, iii. 298 Fever, yellow, of 1794, history of, iii. 357 ----, its exciting causes, iii. 3...
8. iii. 366Philadelphia, its situation, i. 74 ----, population, i. 76 ----, diseases between 1760 and 1766, and 1805, iv. 365 Purges, useful in the bilious fever of 1780, i. 127 ----, ----...
9. iii. 157----, in fevers, when it indicates blood-letting, iv. 316 Putrefaction, does not take place in the blood, iii. 43 Pregnancy, a morbid state of the system, iv. 349 ----, effects...