An essay on fevers.

  • Robertson, Robert, 1742-1829.
Date:
1790
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Credit: An essay on fevers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bay with the tranfports—fent under a flag of truce, to bring General Bur- goyne's troops, which furrendered at Sa- . ratoga, from Bofton—I was fent onboard to fee the lieutenant (now a poft cap- j tain) commanding the cutter, who had I been reported fick to captain Dalrym- ple, who commanded upon that fervice. I found the lieutenant, the furgeon, two midlhipmen, the clerk, and three j or four men and a boy, very ill .of Ship Fever; and the furgeon, fo far from i fufpe&ing the caufe to be infe6tion, was much furprifed when I enquired where, or by what means, they caught it ? On further enquiry, I learned from the lieu- tenant, that he had brought from the pri- fon fhip, at Rhode Ifland, a few pri- foners, who belonged to the Vineyard, to be fent alhore there on their liberty, as an inducement to the inhabitants to allow fome pilots to come off, and pilot the II