The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-11-12


chambers but we feel it our duty to difeounenance
iuch reliance on their efficacy would prevent
an attention to the more important obje OF vcnti-
lation.
The above precautions will, in epinion, afford
the greatet poibie fecurty the public, at the fame
time that due provon made for the oil the flick
Nor can they give rife eoncealmen, through fear
apprehension, in any rank Of life. To the poor man.
what will be deiirabe than know that he will
not be abandoned in the moa cruel of all dieafes.
Even in the feParaon Of the iick from hoie that
well, there is nothing that ihou'd create alarn For
the pooreR, feeling the reaon for which it is done,
hould rejoice, in the proped it holds OUT of iaving
perhaps his wife, his children, other relations,
from the mott imminent danger of Destruction: and
We do not think it too much to expect, from the in
formation and fenfe If jutce that pervades all ranks
even the pooreit in this country, that they lould
lend their helping hand with the fame zeal they
would in the cafe Of FIRE other impending mis-
fortune. Even the Gek would find their advan-
tage in giving the earlie notice Of their dieaie For
what could any one, i'll Of fueh maady, defire
more, than that he ihould have proper aiiiifance
hnfelf, and that thoie mott dear him ihould be
iaved from the danger of perhing by consagion de-
! rived from him We beg leave to repeat again,
that we do not think Prefume too much on the
good ienie OF the country, to uppoe that the poor
Will lee the reaon and juice of the nleaiurss to be
taken; and that thoe in better crcuaapces will not
only readily acquieice in them, but give their beit
aid to render them eticacious. BY doing which, in
every rank Of lie, while we difchargins farred
and importan, duty feliew creatures, we l.al
all iikewiie bef confult own fafety.
1t will be highly important that the of any
peitilental dilorder which may unhappily he intro
duced, ihould be ddeerned at an early period. 1t
may, therefore, be ueful to give hort count of
the diitindive iymptoms by which the plague and
the petilsntal demper at Gibraltar are principally
chara terized.
perfons i'll the plague attacked with the fol-
lowing lymptoms with cold and hivering, with
latitude and pain in the limbs, with lois of appetite,
, iioknels and iometiines vomrng alto with pain in
| the head. Thefe affections are the companions of
mott fsvers at the beginning but in the plague the
head ache is particularly fevere and there conf-
| hon and weight in it, and giddneis which comes
and goes. There is an uncommon pro(lration of
itrength, and great oppreion about the pr1cordia
accompanied with unuiual detection of fpirits
The flick are inclined to be lent; and though anxiety
IS ftrongly marked in the countenance, they make
but few complaints. Ifthefe fymPtoms 90 not put An
end to life in "a hours, they encreafe in violence
through the econd third day, and the progrefs of
the dorder then hews tlelf in tun,ours of the fym-
pathetic glands, in the arnpts, groius neck, or
ny earbuncles which appear in many parts of the boz
dy. And thele eruptens are fIch fpec6c marks of
the plague, that one or ether of them alnot always
preien, unles through the extreme maligny of the
dueaie or the weakness induced the patient tuks be-
fore they have time to appear. Thefe general notices
we conceive to lie fuihcient make the attending
Phyiican or others of what they are to appre-
bend, and 10 decide him in taking the neceGary
nieaures of precauton which the circumii ance NAV
require.
Though the hiitory of the peftentiaI fever ". ;cb
has prevailed At Gibraltar and on the COATS of ,he
Med'terrahean, be not perfect, yet we think it osr
DUTY to lay beioreyour Lordhips fou,e account of il
according to the be information that has been receY-
ed OF its nature and character.
1t begins with cold ltivering, pain in the limb.
frequently but not always, accompanied with tick
neis, and dnpoition to vonait. There j, pain in
the head, more leis violent, attended with fulfil
hon and redneis OF the eyes. In many, the pain of
the mead very ditreilng and in iome cafe, confin
ed to the forehead, whi in others it extended very
low down between the eyes and cavities of the noie
lometmes the cheeks and the whole countenanee was
lwonen with glofy appearance. The pulfe in this
dnorder is full and quick, foon after the acceiiion of
the fever, but without any difficulty Of respiration
The heat OF the fSn, ioon as the cold went off,
became always very great and this hea. with full
quick Pulie and PAIN in the head generally continued
TO encreaie during the !rt SO hours and then to de-
ereaie gradually for the fame length of time 70 that
at the end OF 72 hours, all febre heat and lnefs of
inc puie, as well as the pain of the head and limbs
i.enled to have left the patient. In his progrels of
the dfeaie, bleeding from the nole often happen
cd and yeliownels of the fkin came on Especially
~ the dtreis about the Gomach had been great and
the effect OF vomiting violent. flight drium iome-
times comes on. But like the yellownefs ofthe kim
1t is ~ no means Continuation the third day; of the
attack frequently happens that the irratabty of
the tomach is greatly increaled, and in fome cafe.
nothing can be afterwards retained on the ftomach
The excavations from tile bowels now Ike wife become
too frequent, attended Especially if active purgatives
mad been given with total ffpenfon of the Office
OF the i,idneys-No urine feems 10 be fecreted for
there is no inclination make water nor any fenfe of
inines IN the region Of the bladder nor any urine TO
De drawn ohby the catheter.----Thefe fymptoms viz
an increaied irtabilility Of the omach, the adyen
iouS diarrhoea & deficiency of urne accompanied
withhiceough are conldered asexremely sravourable
ymptoms, and very few psrfons recover after their
appearance Especially if there be in the elections from
the foniach light ragged 6Iamens of browniih CO.
Jour, reiembling the Waiting of the mouth when
port wine or any red wine has been uied for tina, pur
pole The graf debility Of the pule, with the ex-
eeye Proitration Of trength which now takes placo
are iyrlpioms which forbodc fatal termination of
the diforder.
The foregoing regulations, though far from being
complete have been drawn up with care apd eonfid.
cradle Isbour from great variety of enquiries which
they involved; aud we have thought it right to Law
them, IN their Prefent Fate, before the Lords Of his
Majeity's Mot Honorable Pryy Council in order
That 1t may be feen we have not been ncglrellul of
their Lordihips commands in entering upon the b,,
unels they had propofed TO us.--We beg leave to