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ability a path of inquiry, which will probably con- 

 duct to very interesting and instructive conclusions. 

 In the mean time, the modes of treating yellow 

 fever have received great improvement, during 

 the period under consideration. Those who have 

 written on this disease with most reputation, are 

 Dr. Rush, of the United States, who has had ample 

 experience in the treatment of it,^ and Drs. Jack- 

 son and Chisholm, of Great-Britain. 



The diseases of Camps, Armies, and Military 

 Hospitals have attracted much attention, and the 

 treatment of them received great improvements in 

 the course of the late century. The means of pre- 

 venting diseases, in such situations, are much 

 more attended to than formerly; particularly all 

 circumstances which respect the sites of encamp- 

 ments, the shelter, cloathing, food, cleanliness, &c. 

 of troops, and the ventilation of the places in which 

 they are stationed. For many of these improve- 

 ments the public are indebted to Sir John Prin- 

 GLE, Drs. Donald Monro, Brocklesby, Hun- 

 ter, and others, who have written on the diseases 

 of armies. The means of preventing and curing 

 the diseases incident to Seamen have also been more 

 diligently and successfully studied in the course of 

 the last age than ever before. For very enlightened 

 inquiries and useful publications on this subject 

 we owe much to Drs. Lind, Macbride, Clarke, 

 Blane and Trotter. 



f The intrepidity and benevolence displayed by Dr. Rush, during tb^ 

 several seasons in -which pestilence has prevailed in Philadelphia, deserve 

 the highest eulogium. This remark applies with peculiar force to the 

 season cf 1793, when the yellow fever appeared in that city, arrayed in 

 greater terror than ever before or since, in any part of the United States; 

 when the methods of treatment were comparatively little understood; when 

 3t was universally considered as an highly contagious disease ; and when 

 the fortitude and services of this distinguished physician, through the whole 

 course of the epidemic, were pre-eminently conspicuous. If the admirers of 

 moral heroism celebrate, as they justly do, the conduct of the good Bishop 

 f)f Marseilles, and of the benevolent Lord Mayor of London^ it is conceived 

 f;hat the firmness and useful exertions of Dr. Rush, in similar circumstances, 

 ^re, in no respect, less worthy of their commemora.tion and praise. 



