OF EMETICS.
It was said a practitioner, who was opposed to bleeding and mercury, cured this fever by means of strong emetics. I gave one to a man who refused to be bled. It operated freely, and brought on a plentiful sweat. The next day he arose from his bed, and went to his work. On the fourth day he sent for me again. My son visited him, and found him without a pulse. He died the next day.
I heard of two other persons who took emetics in the beginning of the fever, without the advice of a physician, both of whom died.
Dr. Pinckard informed me, that their effects were generally hurtful in the violent grades of the yellow fever in the West-Indies. The same information has since been given to me by Dr. Jackson. In the second and third grades of the bilious fever they appear not only to be safe, but useful.