NOVEMBER, 1793. +-----+------------+-----------+-------------+--------------------+ | | Barom. | Ther. | Winds. | Weather. | | | 7 2 | 7 2 | 7 2 | 7 2 | |Days.|A. M. P. M.|A. M. P. M.|A. M. P. M.| A. M. P. M. | | 1 |30 1 30 1| 40 41 | NNE NE |rain, cloudy, | | 2 |30 3 30 25| 32 49 | NNE NE |fair, fair, | | 3 |30 1 30 0| 43 56 | calm SW |cloudy, cloudy, | | 4 |29 8 29 9| 55 67 | SW SW |cloudy, fair, | | 5 |30 15 30 1| 50 64 | NE NE |rain, rain, | | 6 |29 8 29 65| 63 67 | S S |cloudy, cloudy, | | 7 |29 8 29 8| 44 64 | calm SW |fair, fair, | | 8 |29 8 29 85| 43 56 | SSW SW |fair, fair, | | 9 |29 9 29 95| 42 64 | SW SW |fair, fair, | +-----+------------+-----------+-------------+--------------------+ OF THE METHOD OF CURE. In the introduction to the history of the fever, I mentioned the remedies which I used with success, in several cases which occurred in the beginning of August. I had seen, and recorded in my note book, the efficacy of gentle purges in the yellow fever of 1762; but finding them unsuccessful after the 20th of August, and observing the disease to assume uncommon symptoms of great prostration of strength, I laid them aside, and had recourse to a gentle vomit of ipecacuanha, on the first day of the fever, and to the usual remedies for exciting the action of the sanguiferous system. I gave bark in all its usual forms of infusion, powder, and tincture. I joined wine, brandy, and aromatics with it. I applied blisters to the limbs, neck, and head. Finding them all ineffectual, I attempted to rouse the system by wrapping the whole body, agreeably to Dr. Hume's practice, in blankets dipped in warm vinegar. To these remedies I added one more: I rubbed the right side with mercurial ointment, with a view of exciting the action of the vessels in the whole system, through the medium of the liver, which I then supposed to be principally, though symptomatically, affected by the disease. None of these remedies appeared to be of any service; for although three out of thirteen recovered, of those to whom they were applied, yet I have reason to believe that they would have recovered much sooner had the cure been trusted to nature. Perplexed and distressed by my want of success in the treatment of this fever, I waited upon Dr. Stephens, an eminent and worthy physician from St. Croix, who happened then to be in our city, and asked for such advice and information upon the subject of the disease, as his extensive practice in the West-Indies would naturally suggest. He politely informed me, that he had long ago laid aside evacuations of all