A treatise on the fevers of Jamaica, with some observations on the intermitting fever of America, and an appendix, containing some hints on the means of preserving the health of soldiers in hot climates / by Robert Jackson.

  • Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.
Date:
1791
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Credit: A treatise on the fevers of Jamaica, with some observations on the intermitting fever of America, and an appendix, containing some hints on the means of preserving the health of soldiers in hot climates / by Robert Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    Epidemics, has feldom forgotten to mention, not only the general conftitution of the fea- fons with refpecT to difeafes; but likewife the nature of the climate, where his obfervations were more particularly made. The fpecies of fevers, it is true, that are found in the writings of Hippocrates are extremely mul- tiplied > yet this authour feems ftill to have been clearly of opinion, that difeafes, which are eiTentially the fame, aifume, in fome refpecls, a difFerent appearance in the iiland of Thafus, and at Abdera, on the contiguous coaft of Thrace. Obfervations to the fame erTect have been made by many others in dif- ferent parts of rhe world j nor is the fact ca- pable of being better illurlrated in any country^ than in Jamaica; where a very fmall change of place, or the ordinary revolution of feafons, are often obferved to influence in a high de- gree, the appearances of the common en-- demic of that illand. But this obfervation,— that local fituation and the change of feafons, are the caufe of varieties in the appearances of the fame difeafe, has been fo long known, that it is almoft unneceffary to mention it^ nor would it have been repeated now; unlefs to obviate any objections which might be made to the hiftory, that is given in the fol- lowing pages, fhould it not be found exaclly to