Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 4: The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the AuthorRush, Benjamin
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Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 4: The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author
Rush, Benjamin
Medicine; Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Civilization, diseases derived from it, i. 32
----, ----, not necessarily connected with it, i. 60
Climate of Pennsylvania, account of, i. 71
----, its changes, i. 76
----, its temperature, i. 78
----, its effects upon health and life, i. 108
Calomel, useful joined with emetics in scarlatina anginosa, i. 144
----, its effects as a purge, when combined with jalap, in the yellow
fever, iii. 241
----, objections to it answered, iii. 243
Contagious, the yellow fever not so, iv. 223
Cholera infantum described, i. 157
----, a form of bilious fever, i. 158
----, its remedies, i. 160
----, means of preventing it, i. 164
Cynanche trachealis, its different names, i. 169
----, appearances in the trachea after death, i. 170
----, its different grades, i. 171
----, its remedies in its forming state, i. ibid.
----, its remedies after it is formed, i. 172
----, favourable and unfavourable signs of its issue, i. 174
Consumption, pulmonary, thoughts on, i. 199
----, pulmonary, Indians, and persons who lead laborious lives, not
subject to it, i. 200
----, radical remedies for it in exercise, labour, and the hardships of
a camp and naval life, i. 204
----, its causes, ii. 62
----, not contagious, ii. 79
----, tracheal, described, ii. 84
----, its remedies, ii. 87
----, premonitory signs, ii. ibid.
----, of the remedies for its inflammatory state, ii. 89
----, of blood-letting, ii. ibid.
----, of a vegetable diet, ii. 104
----, of the remedies for its hectic state, ii. 107
----, for its typhus state, ii. 108
----, of its radical remedies, ii. 128
----, of exercise, ii. ibid.
----, of travelling, ii. 137
----, signs of its long or short duration, and of its issue in life and
death, ii. 144
----, its different ways of terminating in death, ii. 147
College of physicians, their letter to the citizens of Philadelphia,
declaring the existence of the yellow fever in the city, &c. in 1793,
iii. 82
----, their letter to the governor of the state, on the origin of the
yellow fever in 1793, iii. 197
----, their opinion of the origin of the fever in 1799, iv. 100
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