A treatise on the fevers of Jamaica, with some observations on the intermitting fever of America, and an appendix, containing some hints on the means of preserving the health of soldiers in hot climates / by Robert Jackson.

  • Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.
Date:
1791
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Credit: A treatise on the fevers of Jamaica, with some observations on the intermitting fever of America, and an appendix, containing some hints on the means of preserving the health of soldiers in hot climates / by Robert Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the Semitertian at great length. (5) But whatever credit may be otherwife due to the obfervations of this illuftrious writer, it is evi- dent that the defcription, in the prefent in- ftance, is merely the refult of theory. (6) He has attempted, indeed, to illuftrate his opinion by an example; but the cafe he has furnifhed us with, is conftantly varying its hour of at- tack; and if accurately examined, appears rather to be a triple tertian, properly fo called, than the form of fever that I have defcribed above. After the Greeks we may next take a fhort view of the Arabian phyficians., who, as they borrowed much of their knowledge from the writings of Galen, likewife adopted his idea of the compound nature of the Semi- tertian. (7) Avicenna, the moft eminent among them, has defined this form of difeafe with a good deal of precifion ; but we do not nnd that he has added any thing very material to the opinions of his predeceffors. Galen, indeed, had difcuffed the fubject fo fully, that, though fucceeding writers fometimes changed names, they do not feem in reality to have furnifhed much new obfervation. As we defcend to lefs remote times, HofFman and Cleghorn are the moft accurate of the mo- derns, on this fubjedt, who have yet come to my hands. (8) The former defcribes under the