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Author: Currie, William, 1754-1828.
Title: Observations on the causes and cure of remitting or bilious fevers. To which is annexed, an abstract of the opinions and practice of different authors; and an appendix, exhibiting facts and reflections relative to the synochus icteroides, or yellow fever. / By William Currie, Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, &c. ; [Two lines of verse]
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Print source: Observations on the causes and cure of remitting or bilious fevers. To which is annexed, an abstract of the opinions and practice of different authors; and an appendix, exhibiting facts and reflections relative to the synochus icteroides, or yellow fever. / By William Currie, Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, &c. ; [Two lines of verse]
Currie, William, 1754-1828.
Philadelphia:: Printed for the author, by William T. Palmer, no. 18, North Third-Street., 1798.
Subject terms:
Yellow fever.
Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation.
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INTRODUCTION.
OBSERVATIONS ON BILIOUS FEVERS.
BILIOUS FEVERS,
OF THE CAUSES OF BILIOUS FEVERS.
FEBRILE MIASMATA Conveyed through the AIR to a considerable Distance.
AN EXAMINATION OF THE EVIDENCES RESPECTING THE CONTAGIOUS NATURE OF INTERMITTENT & REMITTENT FEVERS
A DESCRIPTION OF THE BILIOUS REMITTING FEVER, AS IT USUALLY APPEARS IN PHILADELPHIA, IN SUMMER AND AUTUMN.
DIAGNOSTICS.
CAUSES WHICH PREDISPOSE TO THE REMITTING FEVER
PROGNOSIS.
EXTRACTS from my NOTES on the WEATHER and DISEASES of the year 1795.
EXTRACTS from my NOTES on the WEATHER and DISEASES, of 1796.
OF THE TREATMENT.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FEBRILE DISORDERS WHICH PREVAILED IN SHEFFIELD IN THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, IN THE YEARS 1793, 1794 AND 1795. EXTRACTED FROM A LETTER OF WILLIAM BUEL, PHYSICIAN AT SHEFFIELD, TO E. H. SMITH, PHYSICIAN AT NEW YORK.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM DR. THEODORE JOHNSON OF EASTON, TALBOT COUNTY, TO THE AUTHOR, DATED MAY 16TH. 1794.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM DRS. TAYLOR AND HANSFORD, TO THE AUTHOR, RELATIVE TO THE REMITTING FEVER WHICH OCCURS AT NORFOLK, ON THE CHESAPEAK BAY IN VIRGINIA, AND THE ADJACENT COUNTRY.
AN ABSTRACT OF THE OPINIONS AND PRACTICE IN FEBRILE DISEASES, OF PHYSICIANS OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, &c. WITH OCCASIONAL REMARKS &c.
GENERAL METHOD OF CURE.
AN ABSTRACT of Dr. TISSOT's HISTORY of the EPI|DEMIC BILIOUS FEVER at LAUSANNE, in the year 1755.
The Constitution of the Air.
The History of the Disease.
Method of Cure.
CASE 1st.
CASE 2d.
Of Bleeding in Bilious Fevers.
Remarks on Venaesection in Fevers.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE BILIOUS FEVER WHICH OC|CURRED IN A VOYAGE TO THE EAST INDIES, IN THE YEAR 1766, BY DR. BADENOCH, (Published in London Med. Ob|serv. Vol. 4th, p. 156.)
"REMARKS ON THE CURE.
Of the particular cure of the fever of Jamaica.
EXTRACTS from DR. FORDYCE's DISSERTATIONS on FEVERS, published in 1794—5.
An ABSTRACT of DR. PATTERSON's REMARKS, pub|lished at London-Derry, in the year 1795.
Of the effluvia from putrefying animal substances.
CONCLUSION.
APPENDIX,
Description of the Symptoms.
Treatment.
ERRATA.