Observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica : and on the best means of preserving the health of Europeans, in that climate / by John Hunter, M.D.F.R.S. and physician to the army.

  • Hunter, John, -1809.
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
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Credit: Observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica : and on the best means of preserving the health of Europeans, in that climate / by John Hunter, M.D.F.R.S. and physician to the army. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    of thefe places, have in a few days be- come fickly. The men have been feized with fevers, owing to the low fwampy lands along the more, and at the head of the harbour, from which lafl the exhala- tions are carried every morning towards the mips, when the regular fea breeze fets In, as is fenfibly perceived by the bad fmell which accompanies it. In the year 1782, two frigates moored at the head of the harbour, to guard againft an attack in that quarter, were obliged to leave their ftation in a fortnight, on account of iicknefs, though few of their people had been permitted to go on more during that time. The (hips of war do not go fo high up to take in their water, but, the place being wet and fwampy, it com- monly happens that the men employed In filling the water cafks are taken lick, either at the time, or a few days after; and there are examples where, out of fix- ty or feventy men on that duty, not one has efcaped a fever* In.