Month.Patients.Quantity.
ounces.
Number of
times bled.
August.Peter Denham 50 5
Mrs. Bruce 70 7
Andrew Gribble, aged 15 years. 50 5
John Madge15012
Peter Brown 80 8
September.Mrs. Gardiner 80 7
Miss Sally Eyre 80 8
Mrs. Gass 50 3
Richard Wells's maid10010
Mr. Norval100 9
Mr. Harrison 90 9
Henry Clymer 80 8
October.Mrs. Mitchell12013
Mrs. Lenox 80 7
Mrs. Kapper14011
Rev. Dr. Magaw's maid10010
Miss Hood10010
Mrs. Vogles 70 5
1795Guy Stone100 9
January.Benj. Hancock10010
Mr. Benton13013
Mrs. Fries15015
Mrs. Garrigues 80 7

Three of the women, whose names I have mentioned, were in the advanced stage of pregnancy, viz. Mrs. Gardiner, Mrs. Gass, and Mrs. Garrigues. They have all since borne healthy children. I have omitted the names of above one hundred persons who had the fever, from whom I drew thirty or forty ounces of blood, by two or three bleedings. I did not cure a single person without at least one bleeding.

It is only by contemplating the extent in which it is necessary to use this remedy, in order to overcome a yellow fever, that we can acquire just ideas of its force. Hitherto this force has been estimated by no other measure than the grave, and this, we know, puts the strength of all diseases upon a level.

The blood drawn in this fever exhibited the following appearances;

1. It was dissolved in a few instances.

2. The crassamentum of the blood was so partially dissolved in the serum, as to produce an appearance in the serum resembling the washings of flesh in water.

3. The serum was so lightly tinged of a red colour as to be perfectly transparent.

4. The serum was, in many cases, of a deep yellow colour.