Observations and inquiries into the nature & treatment of the yellow, or Bulam fever, in Jamaica and at Cadiz : particularly in what regards its primary cause and assigned contagious powers, illustrated by cases & dissections, with a view to demonstrate that it appears divested of those qualities assigned to it by Mr. Pym, Sir J. Fellowes, & others, in a series of memoirs / by Edward Doughty.

Doughty, Edward.

Date:: 1816

Credit: Observations and inquiries into the nature & treatment of the yellow, or Bulam fever, in Jamaica and at Cadiz : particularly in what regards its primary cause and assigned contagious powers, illustrated by cases & dissections, with a view to demonstrate that it appears divested of those qualities assigned to it by Mr. Pym, Sir J. Fellowes, & others, in a series of memoirs / by Edward Doughty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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an event which might have changed the features of the peninsular war. In the observations I have given of the fever then prevailing in Cadiz this con- sideration will be found, from the extracts of a letter which I wrote to His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent. I have also, from those observations, been constrained to advert to a transaction result- ing from a too zealous desire of investigat- ing into its nature by anatomical enquiry. Sir James Fellowes was at that time head of the department, with the designation of Director of Hospitals : I was one of the Surgeons on the Staff under him. A differ- ence of opinion, in regard to the qualities of that fever, must have been the occasion of his placing obstacles to the inquiry by dis- section, on a request that I made for the purpose, by instituting arrangements, which rendered it afterwards not possible for me to open a dead body in the British Military Hospitals. .Disappointed in my wishes, and thwarted in my endeavours to acquire every possible information respecting so destruc-

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