76 On the Epidemic Fever of Tork-Town. 



son, an intermittent form. It was attended with 

 considerable mortality, among the poorer class of 

 people, owing to the want of proper attention and 

 medical aid. 



There was nothing uncommon in the symptoms of 

 the disease. Relapses, however, were frequent, and 

 indeed very general, rendering the disease exceed- 

 ingl}' obstinate. In one or two cases, which came 

 under my own observation, a dark-coloured fluid was 

 spontaneously discharged from the stomach, and this 

 was succeeded by a deep-orange tinge, discolouring 

 the whole of the body. 



Evacuant medicines, occasional depletion with the 

 lancet, and the timely use of tonics, proved, even in 

 these cases, successful. 



Few, if any, cases of the epidemic approached to 

 that high grade, or inflammatory diathesis, which pre- 

 vails in Yellow- Fever : neither can we suppose the 

 disease to have been contagious, except in the last- 

 mentioned case*, where several of the attendants as- 

 cribed their illness to this source. 



I would here mention a circumstance that is singu- 

 lar, and perhaps worthy of attention. In York- 

 county, and most of the adjacent counties, the disease 

 seems to have been confined to limestone vallies, and 



* That in which a peculiarly dark-coloured fluid was thrown 

 up from the stomach. 



