Isaac Davis, II

Bilious Fever

"Bilious fever" is related to certain intestinal and malarial fevers. Bilious fever usually occurs in more temperate climates in the summer or fall. In this fever, the rise of temperature is usually slow. The patient will look ill, have a strong pulse, flush face, and furred tongue. The temperature of the patient will rise gradually instead of suddenly.

Etiology: When a continual, remitting, or intermitting fever is accompanied with a frequent or copious evacuation of bile, either by vomit or stool, the fever is denominated bilious .

Treatment: A liquid diet should be given to the patient in order to treat this disease.

Modern Day Equivalent: Bilious fever is also known as remittent fever.

Sources

• Winter Quarters Cemetery; Grave #155; Name: Isaac Davis; Death date: 19 May 1847; Cause of death: Bilious Fever.
• Hooper, Robert M.D. F.L.S. Lexicon-Medicum; or Medical Dictionary. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1826; Winslow, Kenelm. The Home Medical Library, Volume I. New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1911; Scholl, B. Frank. Library ofHealth: Complete Guide to Prevention and Cure of Disease. Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Company, 1944.