The history of the yellow fever, with the most successful method of treatment / by Joseph Mackrill, M.D. several years resident of the West-Indies.

  • Mackrill, Joseph, 1762-1820.
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
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Credit: The history of the yellow fever, with the most successful method of treatment / by Joseph Mackrill, M.D. several years resident of the West-Indies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tive to her operations; if the pulfe are tenfe and quick, he will obferve the countenance flufhed, and the eyes turged with blood; if na- ture is left to herfelf under thefe circumft;. hemorrhagy is generally induced; lofs of blood is then the indication fhe plainly points out; if, on the other hand, the pulfe, in the firft attack, are flow and oppreffed, the phyfician has yet a good rule for his guide. I never felt this flow, oppreffed pulfe, in the African Fever, unac- companied with a degree of hardnefs, and I believe it is one of the very few philofophica! rules in the practice of medicine, that wherever you find a hardnefs of the pulfe, let other cir- cumftances be what they may, bleeding is ne- ceflary. So great frequently is the engorge- ment of the blood veffels, in the commence- ment of this fever, that I have frequently been inclined to think the blood had a ftrong difpofi- tion to coagulate; under this idea I always avoided opium, the mifchievous effect of which, in this difeafe, is perhaps to increafe this difpo- fition; neither has the blood that florid inflam- matory appearance at the firft operation, which you will find at the fecond; the vefiels after the firft drawing, becoming in fome meafurc liberated,