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... Skin and Eye . - Black Vomit . Blood . - Relapse.- Appetites Post - mortem Appearances Treatment CHAP . III . Page - 64 69 90 CHAP . IV . 104 DIVISION III . Meteorological Observations , & c . - 114 DIVISION IV . ILLUSTRATIONS - 134 ...
... Skin and Eye . - Black Vomit . Blood . - Relapse.- Appetites Post - mortem Appearances Treatment CHAP . III . Page - 64 69 90 CHAP . IV . 104 DIVISION III . Meteorological Observations , & c . - 114 DIVISION IV . ILLUSTRATIONS - 134 ...
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... Skin in Yellow Fever , and " White Vomit " on - Page 156 - 158 VIII . On the former Use of Bark in the Treatment of Fevers 159 IX . Extract from a Letter of Lieut . - General Berkeley to the Editor , on the outbreak of Yellow Fever in ...
... Skin in Yellow Fever , and " White Vomit " on - Page 156 - 158 VIII . On the former Use of Bark in the Treatment of Fevers 159 IX . Extract from a Letter of Lieut . - General Berkeley to the Editor , on the outbreak of Yellow Fever in ...
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... skin macerated , and the clothing saturated with condensed and unevaporated perspiration the depurating functions become embarrassed . These effects are very evident in the large and crowded Colonial Hospital . There , the ulcers also ...
... skin macerated , and the clothing saturated with condensed and unevaporated perspiration the depurating functions become embarrassed . These effects are very evident in the large and crowded Colonial Hospital . There , the ulcers also ...
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... that bronzing of the exposed skin in the West , which is the almost constant effect of exposure to the sun's rays in the East , Indies and in the South of Europe . ] — ED . - but the former might have been pronounced at once a C 4 23.
... that bronzing of the exposed skin in the West , which is the almost constant effect of exposure to the sun's rays in the East , Indies and in the South of Europe . ] — ED . - but the former might have been pronounced at once a C 4 23.
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... skin , are very prone to diseased action of a kind bearing some resemblance to what is witnessed in yellow fever ; —for instance , the chapping of the lips , with ulceration and bleeding ; an apthous , or slightly ulcerated state of ...
... skin , are very prone to diseased action of a kind bearing some resemblance to what is witnessed in yellow fever ; —for instance , the chapping of the lips , with ulceration and bleeding ; an apthous , or slightly ulcerated state of ...
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