Remarks on the yellow fever of the south and east coasts of Spain : comprehending observations made on the spot, by actual survey of localities, and rigorous examination of fact at original sources of information / by Thomas O'Halloran.

Date:
1823
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Credit: Remarks on the yellow fever of the south and east coasts of Spain : comprehending observations made on the spot, by actual survey of localities, and rigorous examination of fact at original sources of information / by Thomas O'Halloran. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    San Lucar, Cadiz, See.; and finally to Gib- raltar, his proper official station. The field of investigation was an extensive one; the fatigue, implied in traversing it, could only be sustained by a strong man; and the comforts of living, in a country where money is of little value, could not be at- tained by one of narrow income. The ex- cursion was not one of pleasure ; but the object in view was an important one in the author’s mind, and he laboured to at- tain it. What he has attained, he attained with difficulty, but he trusts with utility to others. He is confident of the accu- racy of the statements which he has made ; and he thinks he perceives in them such uniformity in results, though obtained at distant places and by different persons, as to establish clearly the important fact, that the disease in question is not person- ally contagious. He begs leave to observe in this place, that he examined, with the utmost care and circumspection, the na- ture of localities at the points where the disease first made its appearance; and that he did this in every town in Spain