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“ died of this difeafe, having unfortu- 
“ nately loft my notes taken from thofe 
“ diffections. 
“ Tam,” &c. 
I, i Beet fever, which continues two’ 
or three days, and terminates ~ 
without any critical difcharge by fweat, 
urine, ftool, &c. leaving the patient ex- 
ceflively weak, with a {mall pulfe, eafily 
depreflible by very little motion, or by 
an erect pofture, and which is foon fuc- 
ceeded with an icteritious colour in the 
white of the eyes and the fkin, vomiting, 
hemorrhages, &c. and thefe, without be- 
ing accompanied with any degree of a fe- 
brile pulfe and heat, is called in America, 
the Yellow Fever. 
Il. THis fever does not feem to take 
its origin from any particular conftitution 
of the weather, independent of infectious 
miafinata, as Dr Warren * has formerly well 
obferved. 
For, 
*In his treatife concerning the malignant fever in 
Barbadoes, page &.. 
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