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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    332- duce its effedls, by adling on the cxtra- vafated ferum. The colledtions of water in dropfy, bear a ftrong analogy to ferum, yet we do not find that heat converts them into pus; the reafon is, that the velTels did not beftow that peculiar fomething, which is neceflary to this procefs a The admixture of folids, the diifolution of the velTels, and the addition of blood, do not afford any fatisfad;ory explanation of the phcenomenon. The various fecretions of the glands, are performed by a peculiar modified adion; for although the ele- ments of biic, urine, and femen, may by analylis be difcovered in the blood, yet no one has ever dcteded them in their appro-, priate peculiar form ; nor are they ever feen, before the veflels have performed their peculiar ad, by which thefe fecretions are produced. The blood itfelf feems to derive from the adion of the velTels, its co- lour and determinate nature. They exert upon it a peculiar adion, and fuccelTive changes complete the procefs. The ftomach * Vide Note I. feparates