MEMOIR OF DB W&1GH1 ;$9 



tagion, and began to be indisposed on the 5th oT Sep- 

 tcmber ; and the following is a narrative of my case. 

 extracted from notes daily marked down. I had been 

 many years in Jamaica ; but except being somewhat 

 relaxed by the climate, and fatigue of business, I ailed 

 nothing when I embarked. This circumstance, how- 

 ever, might perhaps dispose me more readily to receive 

 the infection. 



" September 5, 6, 7. — Small rigors now and then ; 

 a preternatural heat of the skin ; a dull pain in the 

 forehead ; the pulse small and quick ; a loss of appe- 

 tite, but no sickness at the stomach ; the tongue white 

 and slimy ; little or no thirst ; the belly regular ; the 

 urine pale and rather scanty ; in the night restless, 

 with starting and delirium. 



" September 8. — Every symptom aggravated, with 

 pains in the loins and lower limbs, and stiffness in the 

 thighs and hams. 



" I took a gentle vomit on the second day of this 

 illness, and next morning a decoction of tamarinds; 

 at bed-time an opiate, joined with antimonial wine ; 

 but this did not procure sleep, or open the pores of the 

 skin. No inflammatory symptoms being present, a 

 drachm of Peruvian bark was taken every hour for six 

 hours successively, and now and then a glass of port- 

 wine, but with no apparent benefit. When upon 

 deck, my pains were greatly mitigated, and the colder 

 the air the better. This circumstance, and the failure 

 of every means I had tried, encouraged me to put in 

 practice on myself what 1 had often wished to try on 

 others, in fevers similar to my own 



