E-text prepared by MWS, Jens Nordmann, Bryan Ness, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 58861-h.htm or 58861-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58861/pg58861-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/58861/58861-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/b21935142_0003 Project Gutenberg has the other three volumes of this work. Volume I: see https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58859 Volume II: see https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58860 Volume IV: see https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58862 Transcriber's note: The ligature oe has been marked as [oe]. Text in italics has been enclosed by underscores (_text_). The symbol hand pointing has been marked as [hand]. MEDICAL INQUIRIES AND OBSERVATIONS. BY BENJAMIN RUSH, M. D. PROFESSOR OF THE INSTITUTES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, AND OF CLINICAL PRACTICE, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. III. THE SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED BY THE AUTHOR. PHILADELPHIA, PUBLISHED BY J. CONRAD & CO. CHESNUT-STREET, PHILADELPHIA; M. & J. CONRAD & CO. MARKET-STREET, BALTIMORE; RAPIN, CONRAD, & CO. WASHINGTON; SOMERVELL & CONRAD, PETERSBURG; AND BONSAL, CONRAD, & CO. NORFOLK. PRINTED BY T. & G. PALMER, 116, HIGH-STREET. 1805. * * * * * CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. _page_ _Outlines of a theory of fever_ 1 _An account of the bilious yellow fever, as it appeared in Philadelphia in 1793_ 67 _An account of the bilious yellow fever, as it appeared in Philadelphia in 1794_ 355 _An account of sporadic cases of bilious yellow fever, as they appeared in Philadelphia in 1795 and 1796_ 435 * * * * * OUTLINES OF A _THEORY OF FEVER_.