National Gazette

The following article in Dr. Wistar's address to the Physicians of Philadelphia, exhibiting a statement of his case, during his confinement with the yellow fever, deserves particular notice.—"The remedy which gave me the most sensible relief, and the recommendation of which is my principal inducement for writing now, was cold air.—The second night of the disease, when I was very delirious and in severe pain, I lay between a window and a door, and within four or five feet of the window which was open, the wind suddenly changed and blew upon me cold and raw—its effect was such that I soon became conscious of myself, and was so sensible of benefit from it, that I opposed shutting the window, and by laying in the cold, in less than an hour from being delirious I became reasonable, my pain went off, and as far as I am able to judge, my fever also in a great degree. From this I took a hint, and had the window almost constantly open, and when there was no air, was fanned steadily. I have kept myself very cool ever since, except during the cold sweats, and have great confidence in the effects of cold and fresh air."