22 On the Bilious Remitting Fever, &c. 



proportion to the blood drawn; while the remaining 

 portion is left to be acted upon by the heterogeneous 

 substance (or infection), until its vital principle is de- 

 stroyed, or a mortal wound is inflicted on some of the 

 vital organs. 



In the preceding cases which proved fatal, three had 

 lost blood before I saAv them. If venesection was neces- 

 sary in any case, it was in that of M. A., on account of 

 the injury done to his skull. Twelve or fifteen cases 

 were those of pregnant women, two of whom were deli- 

 vered in the fever ; and the whole of this number reco- 

 vered. To the truth of the above account, the gentle- 

 man whose name is hereto annexed, and who is my stu- 

 dent, with myself, can certify. 



Thos. W. Smith. 

 Edwd. B. Grady. 

 Loudon- Coun ty , Virginia , 

 Dec. 20th, 1805. 



VI. Facts, Observations, and Conjectures, relative to 

 the Elephantine Bones ( of different species), that are 

 found in various parts of North- America. In a let- 

 ter from the Editor to Mr. G. Cuvier, of Paris. 



Dear Sir, 



I KNOW that every new discovery in Natural 

 History will give you pleasure. But I am persuaded, that 

 your pleasure is always peculiarly great, when such dis- 

 coveries tend to throw any light upon the curious sub- 

 ject of extinct species of animals : a subject to which 



