An Historical Sketch of the State of Medicine in the American Colonies

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Excerpt from An Historical Sketch of the State of Medicine in the American Colonies: From Their First Settlement to the Period of the RevolutionDr. Mitchell defines the disease in the following terms This distemper may be defined to be a pestilential fever, proceeding from a contagious miasma sui gene ris, which in¿ames the stomach and adjacent viscera, obstructs the biliary ducts, and dissolves the adipose humours, to which generally succeeds an effusion of a bilious, or other yellow humour upon the external or internal surface of the body, unless prevented by some other means. (medical and Philo. Reg., vol. 4 p.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.