A description of the American yellow fever, which prevailed at Charleston, in South Carolina, in the year 1748 / by Doctor John Lining, physician at Charleston.

  • Lining, John, 1708-1760.
Date:
1799
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Credit: A description of the American yellow fever, which prevailed at Charleston, in South Carolina, in the year 1748 / by Doctor John Lining, physician at Charleston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ |4 3 nofe or ears, and in fome, from all thofe parts at once ; the deglutition became diffi- cult; the hiccoughs and fubfidtus of the tendons came on, and were frequent; the patients trifled v/ith their fingers, and picked the naps of the bed-cloaths; they grew co- matous, or were conftantly delirious. In this terrible ftate, fome continued eight, ten or twelve hours before they died, even after they had been fo long fpeechlefs, and with- out any perceptible pulfation of the arteries in the wrifts; whereas, in all other acute difeafes, after the pulfe in the wrifts ceafes, death follows immediately. When the dif- eafe was very acute, violent convulfions feized the unhappy patient, and quickly brought this fiadium to its fatal end. After death, the li- vid blotches increafed faft, efpecially about the face, breaft, and neck, and the putre- faction began very early, or rather increafed very quickly. XI. This was the progrefs of this terrible difeafe through its feveral/W/<z. But in hot weather, and when the fymptoms in the nrft ftage were very violent, it palfed thro' thofe ftages, as Dr. Warren has likewife obferved, with