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opinion that, although the fever of last summer.
• probably endemie, it was not peculiar to this place . In illustration of this opinion, I
- will place in juxtaposition with a case, and
his remarks given by Dr. Gordon,
in
•
Johnson's
work
C
a-case recouted.
Tropical Climates
by
Mr. Shields, which-occurred in Batavia, in
1800,
together.
with
the mouth of August that gentleman's remarks
Mr Shields" statement. Dr. Gordon's statement.
"Never was there a dikase
"The fever
Aval
• of a very
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and insidious
character, ****
deceitful as this fever. malignant- I have frequently sun instances where every
symptom
was to
the
symptoms changing for
favorable the
that I could have
almost pronounced. my
patient out of danger;
when, all at once, he
would be seized-
sorte. Luc
suddenly,
and wiltiont, warning
either to the medical_
attendants or
the patient.
himself, although often
with visited, and apparently
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restlessness, black vomiting, much-improved, both in delirium, and convulsions, feeling and appearance,
which in a
few hours
half an hour previous
would hurry him out to his death, when he
would suddenly
of existence !
This was the
become strongly converted,
case with. Mr Broughton, his skin- intensely
purser of the Daedalus and
who died of the Batavian
endemic at Edam-
hot
and dry.
the surface
assuming
livida
hue; thus the scene
hospital. On the seventh would close. !
day of his illness he took "Colour - sergeant
it
change for the better; Staley, a stout-
and
uad
everything promising. The morning
before he died he
healthy young man,
was admitted on
the
morning of the 17
th
expressed. himself greatly of June, in the cold- relieved; and called for stage of intermittent
some mutton. broth-
and.
Lago,
both of
fever, and in about
Lia
hoves had gone