An essay on the bilious epidemic fever, prevailing in the state of New-York : to which is added, a letter from Dr. James Mann, surgeon-general to the Army; and a dissertation by Dr. John Stearns, delivered before the state medical society,on the same subject ; with notes and observations on these productions / by Christopher C. Yates.

  • Yates, Christopher C., 1778?-1848.
Date:
1813
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Credit: An essay on the bilious epidemic fever, prevailing in the state of New-York : to which is added, a letter from Dr. James Mann, surgeon-general to the Army; and a dissertation by Dr. John Stearns, delivered before the state medical society,on the same subject ; with notes and observations on these productions / by Christopher C. Yates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    putrid fever of authors, than to either the determined or mixed pneumonic affections, and wants less strong characteristics to make it the former than the latter. The method of cure also adopted for the former com- plaint, with hardly an exception, comports with the most eligible mode pursued in the treatment of this complaint, while pneumonic affections of every de- scription are treated with more or less exceptions to this mode; or rather the mode of cure adopted for pneumonic fevers are exceptionable in this fever. Two communications have lately appeared in our public Journals, purporting to give a history of the prevailing epidemic, and the mode of treating it. The first was from Dr. Mann, Surgeon-General to the Army, who has undoubtedly had the best opportu- nity of ascertaining the nature of the disease, and whose experience may have enabled him to point out the most successful mode of treating it. The second was written by John Stearns, M. D. and made its appearance under the sanction and at the re- quest of the State Medical Society. It may appear presumptuous in me to make any re- marks on these productions, particularly on the first, as its author has, I am informed, obtained two Boyls- tonian prise medals in Massachusetts, for the best dis- sertation on medical subjects ; but its singular and new doctrines induced the enquiry. On the second I was induced to remark, on account of a difference of symptoms described from any I had met with, and some observations which I thought not altogether pertinent to this disease. Its sanction by the State Medical Society gave it an importance de