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that frequent opportunities may not occur, but 

 if, unhappily, they fhould we fhall avail our- 

 felves of them, in the hope of afcertaining, 

 corredly what are the difeafed appearances 

 caufed in the different vifcera by this fatal 

 malady. 



The name commonly given to this di (or- 

 der would feem to be highly inaccurate. Our 

 patient, although feveral days ill, had no yel- 

 lownefs of the ikin, until a few hours before 

 he died. If, therefore, his diffolution had oc- 

 curred only a fhort time fooner ; or if he had 

 recovered previous to the period when this 

 change of colour took place, we could not with 

 any corre&nefs have called the fever he had 

 fuffered a yellow fever, although he had un- 

 dergone all the chara&eriftic fymptoms of the 

 difeafe, fo termed, except the cafual one 

 from which it has been improperly named. 

 Moreover, affixing to a difeafe a name de- 

 rived from a fymptom, and particularly a 

 fymptom which is not always prefent, is cal- 

 culated to deceive, and may be of dangerous 

 tendency, by rendering the pradlitioner unfuf- 

 picious of the real nature of the diforder, until 

 it is too late to check its deftrudtive progrefg, 



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