. Annals of medical history. an nature is frail and susceptibilitynatural. Bard married Miss Valleau, a nieceof Mrs. Kearsley. Although Dr. John Kearsley, Senior, wasa practitioner of recognized talent and wideexperience, but two contributions to medi-cal literature are attributed to him. Thefirst of these is found among a Collec-tion of Letters on Yellow Fever, 1794,manuscripts gathered by John RedmanCoxe, who with characteristic precisionnoted that the following remarks weretaken from a loose paper found in the Book,from which the foregoing pages were copied,and are the production of Dr. Kea
. Annals of medical history. an nature is frail and susceptibilitynatural. Bard married Miss Valleau, a nieceof Mrs. Kearsley. Although Dr. John Kearsley, Senior, wasa practitioner of recognized talent and wideexperience, but two contributions to medi-cal literature are attributed to him. Thefirst of these is found among a Collec-tion of Letters on Yellow Fever, 1794,manuscripts gathered by John RedmanCoxe, who with characteristic precisionnoted that the following remarks weretaken from a loose paper found in the Book,from which the foregoing pages were copied,and are the production of Dr. Kearsley, Benjamin Franklin had re-ferred a clinical note from Dr. Mitchellon the yellow fever of 1741 and 1742 in Virginia to Dr. Kearsley for substance and style of Dr. Kearsleyscommentary warrant its reproductionverbatim. The bellow fever in Virginia seems welldescribed by Dr. Mitchell, but it differs fromthat which appeared in Pennsylvania at thesame period of time, in the following particulars:. Dr. Thomas Graeme, an affable gentleman of education. 1. Wandering pains like those attending arheumatic fever, but much more severe, weregenerally much complained of from the first,by those who had this disease in Pennsylvania,—these are not mentioned by Dr. Mitchell. 2. A very great anxiety with sickness andpain of the stomach attended with an excessiveconvulsive vomiting, which no medicine wouldscarce relieve. This appeared on the first orsecond daj, but more commonly on the thirdwhen it was generally fatal, by bringing onhiccough, inflammation of the stomach andviscera, with a large discharge by vomit, of ablack atrabilious matter like coffee grounds,mixed up with a bloody lymph, or coagulatedblood; which frequently put a period to thepatients life, tho some recovered under this 394 Annals of Medical History symptom, by an early discharge of this biaclcmatter by stool. 3. The atrabilious humour, as Dr. Mitchellcalls it, was highly acrid, yet not so v
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