Note 107 — AN ACCOUNT OF THE BILIOUS REMITTING AND INTERMITTING Yellow Fever, AS IT APPEARED IN PHILADELPHIA, IN THE YEAR 1794.
Reading edition
In the account of the effects of morbid action and inflammation, in the Outlines of the Theory of Fever, the author neglected to mention the change of certain fluids from their natural to a dark colour. It appears in the secretions of the stomach and bowels, in the bile, in the urine, in carbuncles, and occasionally in the matter which is produced by blisters. All these changes occur in the yellow fever, and, in common with the other effects of fever that have been enumerated, are the result of peculiar actions in the vessels, derived from one cause, viz. morbid excitement.