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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 Revolution
Dr. 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.
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