14 Method of treating the Tel/oiv- Fever, k?c. 



The common drinks which I recommended, and 

 which appeared to be the most palatable to the patients, 

 were beer and water, good Seltzer water, and cocoa- 

 nut water. 



In general, the cure of the patient was accom- 

 plished in seven or eight days. 



The cases in which the preceding method proved 

 ineffectual were generally fatal. In a few instances, 

 my patients were treated with mercury, given in large 

 dozes, as ten, and even twenty, grains every hour. 

 They were, at the same time, advised to wash their 

 mouths frequently, with warm milk, or barley-water. 

 The recovery of these patients was preceded by a sa- 

 livation. 



I have seen one patient recover after an almost uni- 

 versal bloody sweat (sudor sanguinis J . He was 

 treated by port- wine, and a strong decoction of the 

 root of Bistort (Polygonum Bistorta of Linnaeus), 

 which was also given in the form of injections. 



I think I have observed the highest degree of ma- 

 lignancy in those patients, who have exhibited the 

 greatest fears of the disease. And permit me to add, 

 that the man who should discover the means of era- 

 dicating from the public mind the terrors inspired by 

 the Yellow- Fever, would deserve as much of man- 

 kind as Dr. Jenner has done by his happy introduc- 

 tion of the Vaccine disease. 



Philadelphia, Oct. 11, 1804. 



