404 ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
ART. XXIX, 
4 Defcription of the American Yellow Fe: 
wer, ina Letter from Dr Joun Lint NG,, 
Phyfician at Charles-town in South Ca- 
rohna, toDr Ropert Wuytt Pro 
Sefer of Médiine in the Univerfity af E- 
dinburgh, 
ee ae, CHArLEs Town, December 34, 17530. 
‘* » N obedience to your defire, I have 
- i fent you the hiftory of the yellow 
“‘ fever as it appeared here in the year 
“1748, which, as far as I can remember, 
** agreed in its fymptoms with the fame 
“* difeafe, when it vifited this town in for= 
“mer years In this hiftory, I have con- ' 
“ fined myfeif to: a faithful narration of 
“facts, and have avoided any phyfical: 
‘inquiry into the caufes of the feveral. 
“* fymptoms in this difeafe; as that would 
“have required more leifure than I am,. 
i oe 
* March 7 rr5ae 
