372 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



I. 'TpHAT fever y which continues two or 

 three days, and terminates without 

 any critical difcharge by fweat, urine, ftool, 

 &c. leaving the patient exceflively weak, 

 with a fmall pulfe, eafily depreffible by very 

 little motion, or by an ered poflure; and 

 which is foon fucceeded with an i£leritious 

 colour in the white of the eyes and the ikin, 

 vomiting, haemorrhages, &c. and thefe, 

 without being accompanied with any degree 

 of a febrile pulfe and heat, is called in Afiie- 

 rica, i\\Q yellow J ever. 



11. This fever does not feem to take its 

 origin from any particular conftitution of the 

 weather, independent of hifeBicus miafjimtay 

 as Dr. Warren^" has formerly well obferved, 



For within thefe twenty five years, it has 

 only been four times epidemical in this town, 

 namely, in the autumns of the years 1732, 

 39, 45 and 48, tho' none of thefe years (ex- 

 cepting that of 1739, whofe fummer and 

 autumn were remarkably rainy) were either 

 warmer or more rainy (and fome of them 



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* In his Treatife concerning the malignant fevers in 

 Bathadoes, page 8. 



