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state these facts to show how short the Council 

 establishment was of medical officers, and how neces- 

 sary it is; during an epidemic, to have sufficient 

 medical aid. 



The yellow fever which prevailed In 1856, and of 

 which I am about to give some account, for the most 

 part attacked the natives ; persons from Europe, and 

 more particularly seamen and soldiers, were not 

 entirely exempt, but to them it rarely proved fatal. 



This fever was ushered in by the same sensations 

 which precede other fevers — such as lassitude, stiff- 

 ness, and pain of the back, loins, and extremities— and 

 was generally accompanied by some degree of coldness. 

 These symptoms were soon succeeded by a severe pain 

 in the head ; a sense of fulness of the eyeballs ; in- 

 tolerance of light ; dry skin, which imparted a burning 

 heat to the hand ; full and quick pulse; tongue covered 

 •with a whitish mucus, but often not materially altered 

 from the state of health. I may here remark that 

 the actual degree of heat, as indicated by the ther- 

 mometer, was not in proportion to the intensity 

 communicated to the touch. It generally varied 

 between 97° and 100°, very seldom exceeded 102° ; 

 yet the skin imparted a burning, caustic sensation to 

 the hand at these times. 



If the patient had been attacked in the night. 



