An enquiry into the nature and causes of the great mortality among the troops at St. Domingo : with practical remarks on the fever of that island and directions for the conduct of Europeans on their first arrival in warm climates / by Hector M'Lean.

  • M'Lean, Hector.
Date:
1797
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Credit: An enquiry into the nature and causes of the great mortality among the troops at St. Domingo : with practical remarks on the fever of that island and directions for the conduct of Europeans on their first arrival in warm climates / by Hector M'Lean. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fudden and powerful means, all the circumftances of the habit, and by this change, to give rife to a new train of movements. It ought to be ever remembered, that when we overcome any morbid adion, in the human body, or fufpend its power; that the fyftem is immediately dif- pofed, to return to its ufual laws. So that to fufpend the adlion, of a morbid power, in the body, is to afford the fyftem a ceflation from hoftilitics; if I may fo fpeak, and to enable it to recover its ancient conftitution. Upon the whole, I have endea- vcured to make this Enquiry as ufe-^ fill as poflible to the Army, for whom alone it was written.