Sketches of Brazil : including new views on tropical and European fever, with remarks on a premature decay of the system incident to Europeans on their return from hot climates / by Robert Dundas.

Date:
1852
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Credit: Sketches of Brazil : including new views on tropical and European fever, with remarks on a premature decay of the system incident to Europeans on their return from hot climates / by Robert Dundas. 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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    a small compass, a great mass of information on the fevers of that and previous epochs, and as bearing the legible stamp of being the work of a talented, accurate, and can- did observer, who looked at disease as it actually presented itself, and not with a view to support some ingenious theory, or preconceived notion—one of a class of men invaluable to medical science. I have, also, lately perused, with great interest, a valua- ble article on Fever in the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, for July 1851, containing, with other subjects, an abstract of the published descriptions of the epidemic fever which prevailed in Upper Silesia, in 1847. In the Scotch epidemic of 1843, the fol- lowing were the leading features, as de- scribed by Dr. Cormack:— The symptoms of invasion are in all present prevailing in Edinburgh and other towns; illus- trated by cases and dissections. Edinburgh, 1843.