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.

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    It arife from the caufe of fever, which prevails more or lefs at all times of the year, and may therefore operate infenfibly on the conftitution, without producing the difeafe -, like to what fometimes hap- pens in the jail fever *. Fads and obfer- vations might be produced, fome in fa- vour of, and others adverfe to, each of the opinions above ftated. It is not impro- bable, that there may be fome founda- tion for both -, but I forbear to enter far- ther on a fubjecl, on which I am not provided with materials, from whence any certain conclufions can be drawn. Inflammations of the eyes, having of- ten fatal terminations, ought not for a moment to be neglected, even though trifling at firft 3 and the means, ufually employed againfl fuch complaints, mould be put in practice with the utmofl di- ligence. It would be fuperfluous to en- ter into a detail upon this head, for I have not learned any thing peculiar to * Med. Tranf. vol. iii, p. 357, the