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Article PARTICULARS OF THE PLAGUE IN PHILADELPHIA. ← Page 3 of 5 →
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Particulars Of The Plague In Philadelphia.
Among these , we have to deplore the loss of very many of our most valuable citizens . We leave to the learned to trace the cause of this pestilence ; some of whom insist it was imported ; others , that it was generated here , by a long , hot , dry summer : We take it tp be the putrid bilious fever of the tropical climates , remembered here by elderly people twiceunder the name of the yellow feveranddurin °
, ; , - the late war , once , by the name of the camp fever , when it did not spread much among the inhabitants , but was confined principally to the soldiers . Oar private opinion is , that it was imported here from the West-Indies ; but was much more general and spread more rapidly , owing to the season , which had disposed our bodies to receive infe & ions ' of any kind .
_ The physicians are all agreed , that the infeftious disorder is no more in the city , and the citizens are rapidly returning . We are your respectful friends , & c .
^ ____^ * - As it is of very great importance to the community at large , that every circumstance of this disorder should be full y known , we have a particular pleasure in having it in our power to publish the report of two very eminent physicians at Philadel phia , who were desired to <> ive their opinion on the subject : ' ' - '• " ° . "
" Being well assured of the great importance of dissections of morbid bodies in the investigation of the nature of diseases , we have thought '< it of consequence , that some of those dead of the present prevailing malignant fever should be examined ; and without enlarging on our observations , it appears at present sufficient to state the following fails ' : ' " ist . That the brain in all its parts has been found in a natural
condition . " 2 d . That the viscera of the thorax are perfectly sound . The blood , however , in the heart and veins is fluid , similar in its consistence to th * blood of persons who have been hanged , or destroyed by elecTricity .
" ¦ 3 - That the stomach , and beginning of the duodenum are the parts that appear most diseased . In two persons , who died of the disease on the 5 th day , the villous membrane of the stomach , especiall y about its smaller end , was found hi ghly inflamed , and this inflammation extended through the pylorus , into the duodenum some way . The inflammation here , was exactl y similar to that induced in the stomach by acrid barsenicwhich have
poisons , as y , we once had an opportunity of seeing in a person destroyed by it . " The bile in the gall bladder was quite of its natural colour , though very viscid . . ' " In another person who died on the 8 th day of the disease ,, several spots of extravasations were discovered between the membranes , particularly about the smaller end of the stomach , the inflammation of ' which had considerably abated . Pus was seen in the beginning of the duodenum , and the villous membrane at this part was thickened .
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Particulars Of The Plague In Philadelphia.
Among these , we have to deplore the loss of very many of our most valuable citizens . We leave to the learned to trace the cause of this pestilence ; some of whom insist it was imported ; others , that it was generated here , by a long , hot , dry summer : We take it tp be the putrid bilious fever of the tropical climates , remembered here by elderly people twiceunder the name of the yellow feveranddurin °
, ; , - the late war , once , by the name of the camp fever , when it did not spread much among the inhabitants , but was confined principally to the soldiers . Oar private opinion is , that it was imported here from the West-Indies ; but was much more general and spread more rapidly , owing to the season , which had disposed our bodies to receive infe & ions ' of any kind .
_ The physicians are all agreed , that the infeftious disorder is no more in the city , and the citizens are rapidly returning . We are your respectful friends , & c .
^ ____^ * - As it is of very great importance to the community at large , that every circumstance of this disorder should be full y known , we have a particular pleasure in having it in our power to publish the report of two very eminent physicians at Philadel phia , who were desired to <> ive their opinion on the subject : ' ' - '• " ° . "
" Being well assured of the great importance of dissections of morbid bodies in the investigation of the nature of diseases , we have thought '< it of consequence , that some of those dead of the present prevailing malignant fever should be examined ; and without enlarging on our observations , it appears at present sufficient to state the following fails ' : ' " ist . That the brain in all its parts has been found in a natural
condition . " 2 d . That the viscera of the thorax are perfectly sound . The blood , however , in the heart and veins is fluid , similar in its consistence to th * blood of persons who have been hanged , or destroyed by elecTricity .
" ¦ 3 - That the stomach , and beginning of the duodenum are the parts that appear most diseased . In two persons , who died of the disease on the 5 th day , the villous membrane of the stomach , especiall y about its smaller end , was found hi ghly inflamed , and this inflammation extended through the pylorus , into the duodenum some way . The inflammation here , was exactl y similar to that induced in the stomach by acrid barsenicwhich have
poisons , as y , we once had an opportunity of seeing in a person destroyed by it . " The bile in the gall bladder was quite of its natural colour , though very viscid . . ' " In another person who died on the 8 th day of the disease ,, several spots of extravasations were discovered between the membranes , particularly about the smaller end of the stomach , the inflammation of ' which had considerably abated . Pus was seen in the beginning of the duodenum , and the villous membrane at this part was thickened .