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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    nearly the fame in both, and not materially different from what has been mentioned in fpeaking of the cure of the remittent fever *-. It was owing to the follow- ing circumftances : one furgeon vifit- ed his hofpital four or five times a day, the other only twice a day; the firft feldom allowed any remiffion to pafs without taking advantage of it, the lat- ter, often 5 one was always at hand to pal- liate the untoward fymptoms, as vomit- ings, or purgings, proceeding either from the medicines or the difeafe; the other, not. Add to thefe, that vigilance in the furgeon at the head of an hofpital extends itfelf to the fervants, and nurfes under him, and thence a greater degree of at- tention, both in adminiftering nourish- ment and medicines. The effect of all thofe caufes was, that the men recovered in half the time in one hofpital that they * This appeared from the medicines entered in the hofpital book, to be taken notice of afterwards. did