of the Atlantic side of Virginia. 11 



and laxatives taken by the mouth, produced, in their 

 operation, great pain, and an increase of the fever 

 and inflammation. I was, therefore, obliged to imi- 

 tate nature, in her operation on the inflamed leg, be- 

 fore-mentioned ; and this never failed of success. 



Wine, bark, and opium, were the common wea- 

 pons that this disease was attacked with ; and many 

 died. 



I am an old-fashioned follower of Sydenham, and 

 proceeded on his plan and method of cure. The 

 consequence of it was, that not a single patient of 

 mine died, though I attended some that were very 

 old, even of the age of sixty, and seventy ; and one 

 near eighty, who all recovered, and are still alive. 

 Dimviddie -County ', Virginia, 

 March 3, 1794. 



IV. Account of the most successful method of treating 

 the Tellovj- Fever, in the island of St. Thomas. In 

 a letter from Dr. Frederic Detlef Meyer, 

 lately of that island, to the Editor. 



IN the treatment of the Yellow-Fever, I had 

 tried all the remedies (so far as I know) that have been 

 recommended by practitioners, and all that to me ap- 

 peared reasonable to be done, according to the diffe- 

 rent medical systems. But every mode of practice 

 that I adopted was attended with equal suecess : or, 

 I should rather say, was followed with equal disap- 



