.24 On the i'dloiv-Fcjer of Charleston, 



as the yellow-fever. I would, therefore, conclude, 

 that the same disease existed at both times, more 

 especially when he afterwards very explicitly informs 

 us, that, in 1728, after an uncommonly hot and dry 

 summer, a dreadful hurricane happened, in the end 

 of August ; and the same year, an infectious and pes- 

 tilential distemper, called the yellow-fever, swept off 

 multitudes of the inhabitants, both white and black. 

 He again speaks of yellow-fever in the years 1739 and 

 1740. We have no medical record of the disease, 

 until that given us by Dr. John Lining, who has 

 written of it as appearing in 1732, 1739, 1745, and 

 1748. He tells us, it was an imported disease, and 

 contagious. Of this opinion I shall say nothing at 

 present. 



We know no more about it, by any documents, 

 until 1792. But I cannot refrain from remarking, 

 that I perfectly recollect, in the autumn of 1761, this 

 disease made its appearance in Charleston. It proved 

 fatal to some strangers ; and one person, I have been 

 told, long a resident, then died of it. It occasioned 

 so much alarm to the late Dr. Lionel Chalmers, of 

 this place, with whom I studied at that time, that he 

 sent his family out of town, during the sickly season, 

 into the country. Other physicians did not then view 

 it in so serious a manner. I apprehend, at that time, 

 as at several different times since, during the autum- 

 nal months, the cases which occurred may have been 

 sporadic ; for since Dr. Lining's time, if we except a 

 few solitary instances, we know little about it until the 

 year 1792, a lapse of forty-four years. 



