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A few days fince a foldier was feized by 

 this hungry devourer, and, in defpite of all our 

 efforts to refcue him, he fell a facrifice to her 

 infatiate thirft for European blood. 



This was the firft patient admitted into the 

 hofpital with the direful malady of the coun- 

 try, called " yellow fever," and it had afford- 

 ed us peculiar fatisfadion had we been happy 

 enough to have faved him : but the difeafe had 

 made great progrefs before he was brought to 

 us, and he died on the 6th day after his ad- 

 miffion. 



The body w^as examined, with a view to r 

 afcertain the changes produced by the difeafe, 

 but the appearances were not precifely fuch, 

 as from converfing with other pra&itioners, 

 and reading a variety of authors, we had 

 been led to expeft. The ftomach was 

 found to be the organ which exhibited the 

 ftrongeft marks of derangement. The inner 

 coat was fureharged with blood, appearing 

 very red, and at one fpot near the upper ori- 

 fice it was of a livid hue, and its texture fo 

 weakened, that the finger was paffed through 

 it, by only a flight preffure. I fincerely hope 



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