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in Syria and Palestine ; the small-pox in Arabia ; the 

 yaws in Guinea ; the syphilis in some of the pro- 

 vinces of South- America ; the plica in Poland; the 

 goitre in Switzerland ; the barbiers, or spurious 

 palsy, on the coast of Malabar ; the scurvy is most 

 frequent in the colder regions north or south of the 

 equator ; and the typhus is the product of the more 

 temperate climates. 



Philadelphia, May, 

 1805. 



IV. Notice of the Telloiv- Fever, as it lately prevailed 

 in Philadelphia. In a letter from Dr. Currie to 

 the Editor. 



I HAVE made particular enquiries respecting 

 the practice of the physicians at the City-Hospital, 

 this season, and find, that, after employing mercury 

 in a few of the first cases of malignant fever admitted 

 there, without success, they entirely abandoned its 

 use, except in some particular instances, and then 

 they combined it with some purgative. 



They seldom employed blood-letting, as they found j 

 purgatives equally certain in reducing the heat of the 

 skin, and other febrile symptoms, at the time they 

 received their patients (which was seldom before the 

 close of the first stage of the disease), without being 

 succeeded by such sudden debility and distressing 

 disorder of the stomach, as appeared to be the case ' 



