Observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica and on the best means of preserving the health of Europeans in that climate : also, Observations on the hepatitis of the East Indies / John Hunter.

  • Hunter, John, -1809.
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1808
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    with narrating what he has seen, will perform a work more likely to be useful towards the improvement of knowledge, than if he endeavoured to add to the value of his own labours, by collecting the opinions of others, which there is some danger of his mistaking or misrepresenting. There is much similarity among the diseases of warm climates; and the Remittent Fever appears to be the disorder which prevails chiefly in all of them. That disease, as de- scribed on the coast of Africa*, and on the banks of the Ganges f, would seem to be nearly the same as in Jamaica. It is, therefore, probable that the method of cure, which was found successful in that island, would answer equally well in those, or similar climates: but this can only be determined by experience. * See Robertson's Physical Journal kept on board his Majesty's ship Rainbow, Part I. cap. 1 and 2. + See Clark's Observations on Voyages to the East Indies, p. l68, &c. Case vi. ct seq.