On the Bilious Remitting Fever, fcfc. 19 



V. Facts and Observations relative to the Bilious Re- 

 mitting Fever of Loudon-County, in Virginia. Com- 

 municated to f/fe Editor by Dr. Thomas Smith. 



Dear Sir, 



HAVING observed, with much regret, the ill 

 effects of Venesection in the treatment of our epidemic 

 (the Bilious Remitting Fever), and having kept a just 

 register of all the cases of this disease that have come 

 under my notice, from the first of March last to this 

 date, I beg leave to submit to your examination the re- 

 sult of my observations. 



I have had 110 cases. But, including relapses, after 

 apparently complete recovery, I have had 380 cases. Of 

 all this number, only five cases have had a fatal termina- 

 tion. These were, 



1. A negro boy, who lived in a close hut, with six 

 other persons, that laboured under the disease, at the 

 same time. He was attended by Dr. H., and myself. 



2. Miss A. B., who lost about twenty ounces of blood 

 from her uterus before I saw her, which was on the 

 14th day of her disease, and three days before her 

 death. 



3. Mr. M. A., who received a wound in the cranium, 

 when he was a child, which accident had subjected 

 him to a temporary delirium, upon a small degree of 

 exercise, ever since that period. I was absent during 



