Observations on the diseases which prevail in long voyages to hot countries, particularly on those in the East Indies : and on the same diseases as they appear in Great Britain / by John Clark, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh; physician to the infirmary and dispensary, at Newcastle; &c. &c.

  • Clark, John, 1744-1805.
Date:
1793
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Credit: Observations on the diseases which prevail in long voyages to hot countries, particularly on those in the East Indies : and on the same diseases as they appear in Great Britain / by John Clark, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh; physician to the infirmary and dispensary, at Newcastle; &c. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The difeafes which prevail in the wet feafon, are fevers, and dyfenteries; which are malignant in proportion to the heat, and humidity of the air; and to the noxi- ous exhalations from marftiy, and uncul- tivated tracts of country. Thus far having arranged the difeafes, as they feem to depend upon the weather, fituation, and feafon, it will appear, that the mod deftructive complaints, in the Eaft Indies, are fevers, cholera morbus, dry belly-ach, dyfentery, and hepatitis; and at fea, the fcurvy. Thefe mall be treated off in their proper places. But as fevers are the moft frequent and fatal of all difeafes, it remains to confider, in a curfory way, the ufual denominations, by which they have been diftinguifhed ; and to examine the real difference which obtains amongfl the genera into whic^ they have been divided. SECT.