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Show Pyreticus. Pyreticus. tune of those, who are first to be seized by an what he thought a better path; the communi- epidemic. Their whole chance for escape lies in their constitution; and that must be peculr.‘ arly happy, if it save them from the Complies.» tion of the doctor with the disease. The remark of Sydenham hasliterally held ‘to the present day. It is at the expence of life to those who have suffered on the appearance of modern cation of a manuscript by Dr. Franklin. ‘We. shall all be willing, I dare say, to believe as much as any one may choose to say in dispa~ ragement ofthe American faculty; but our own ! the first existing !--Well then our own-Some ofour own, scandalized at the disgrace of the common art, did begin to give lessons amain across the Atlantic. The lessons indeed were re- £34 fevers, that succeeding sufferers have been some times preserved. When the yellow fever shewed itself in America, the physicians found them- 235 ceived as the irrelevant effusions ofmen, who set selves in the same condition as the inhabitants themselves to harangue against facts. And Ame- rican pride was destined ere long to have a of a city, which is stormed at midnight by an fearful revenge. unexpected enemy. Their individual squabbles, their contradictions in bodies, their conversrons and confessions, singly and collectively, prove that they were not only unacquainted witha remedy, "but confounded by the very form of the evil. Dr. Rush, the pupil of the so celebrated Cullen and the most eminent physician of the new world, found himself, in his distress, reduced to beg allns of information from a phy‘ sician ot' the West Indies accidentally present in Philadelphia. The condescension does the highest honour to Dr. Rush. But where he hoped for medicine, there he found poison: and this he came to know not from any thing which his instructors had taught him;_but from the wholesale destruction of his patients. , . I have . . . already noticed the accnlent which led nun into what The deadly feud, excited by a mortality from fever on our own shores, be, tween the physician-general to the army and its most celebrated physician particular, came just apropos to be set against the medical squabbles in America. Gibraltar, Gibraltar is pitted against Philadelphia. An American writer has the assurance to say, "that after all British reproaches against the American government and American physicians for permitting the yellow fever to commit such ravages, this yellow fever made incomparably greater proportional ravages in a British garrison, where the authority of medical police was unlimited" (N Y. Med. Helms. viii).---In the West Indies, on the continent of Europe, at home, wherever the British army was posted during thelast war, its history of health has offered not only pretexts to a challenged ‘ |