ON YELLOW FEVER.
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he declares that he had seen the bilious remittent at other places, particularly in Holland, and at Gibraltar in 1804. Mr. Weld, surgeon to the 67th regiment, in his answers to the same questions, says in regard to “ the diagnostic symptoms at the commencement of the disease,” that they were “ the general symptoms of bilious remittent fever, occasionally differing in degree only.” He adds, “ I consider this to be the bilious remittent fever —I saw it in Flushing, England, Cadiz, Carthagena, and Gibraltar.”
Of 127 patients under his care during
the Epidemic of that season, he states 27 to have died. Mr. Amiel, acting surgeon to the foreign depôt at Gibraltar in his answer says, “ I believe that our Epidemic differs only in degree from the bilious remittent fever; and that the two disorders have one and the same origin; they prevail in the same climates; they attack the same organs of the body; they are chiefly fatal to persons of the same constitution; and the form of a mild remittent is often seen close to the malignant type of the Epidemic at the same time, and under equal circumstances of exposure; and the types, more or less continued, or less remittent, are determined by the difference of seasons, constitutions, and by the greater or less virulence of the exciting causes.”—In giving an account of the symptoms, he says, in many instances, a remission be-