Wickham

A

PRACTICAL

TREATISE

ON THE

EFFICACY OF BLOODLETTING,

IN THE

EPIDEMIC FEVER OF EDINBURGH.

ILLUSTRATED BY

NUMEROUS CASES AND TABLES,

EXTRACTED FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE QUEENSBERRY HOUSE
FEVER HOSPITAL.

BY BENJAMIN WELSH, M. D.

SUPERINTENDENT OF THAT INSTITUTION, AND MEMBER OF THE ROYAL
MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.

Si vires sinunt, sanguinem mittere optimum est.

CELS. lib. III.

EDINBURGH :

PRINTED FOR BELL & BRADFUTE,

AND SOLD BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND BROWN,
T. AND G. UNDERWOOD, AND R. STODART, LONDON ;
AND HODGES And mʻarthur, DUBLIN.

1819.

RB-23 b.6758

BRITISH

LIBRAR

TO

THE MANAGERS

OF THE

ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH,

WHOSE UNREMITTED EXERTIONS IN THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY

HAVE SO JUSTLY ENTITLED THEM TO THE GRATITUDE

AND APPLAUSE OF THEIR FELLOW-CITIZENS ;

THE AUTHOR

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBES THIS TREATISE,

AS A MARK OF HIS HIGH RESPECT FOR THEIR PUBLIC SPIRIT,

AND OF HIS GRATITUDE FOR THE CONFIDENCE AND ATTENTION

WITH WHICH THEY HAVE HONOURED HIM.