Reviews

Abstract

MANY of the Southern medical journals have during the last ten years contained descriptions of a disease which was unknown to most of those under whose observation it came. Its prominent and characteristic symptoms are jaundice, great irritability of the stomach, giving rise to uncontrollable vomiting, and a peculiar alteration in the colour of the urine, generally attributed by writers on the disease to the presence of blood. These have also with very few exceptions correctly regarded it as a manifestation of malarial poisoning; by some, however, it has been thought to be a modification of yellow fever.