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MEDICAL INQUIRIES
AND
OBSERVATIONS.
BY BENJAMIN RUSH, M. D.
PROFESSOR OF THE INSTITUTES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE,AND OF CLINICAL PRACTICE, IN THE UNIVERSITYOF 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.
As many of the diseases which are the subjects ofthese volumes belong to the class of fevers, the followingremarks upon their theory are intended torender the principles and language I have adopted,in the history of their causes, symptoms, and cure,intelligible to the re