Memoirs of West Indian fever : constituting brief notices regarding the treatment, origin, and nature of the disease commonly called yellow fever / by John Wilson.

Date:
1827
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Credit: Memoirs of West Indian fever : constituting brief notices regarding the treatment, origin, and nature of the disease commonly called yellow fever / by John Wilson. 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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    CONTENTS. MEMOIR I. Report transmitted to the Commissioners for Victualling his Majesty’s Navy, 8fc., on the ls£ of November, 1824 Cases: — Mild Inflammatory Violent Inflammatory Intense Inflammatory ... ,... Slight Congestive Aggravated Congestive Apoplectic Congestive 1 43 45 48 51 52 55 MEMOIR II. V The prevailing Opinions regarding the Cause of West Indian I Fever considered 62 Atmospheric Heat 64 Contagion 67 Marsh Miasmata 89 Principle of Vegetation 114 MEMOIR III. New Opinions regarding the Cause of West Indian Fever pro-, posed 123 MEMOIR IV. The (Question, whether West Indian Fever is a peculiar or com- mon Disease, considered 175 MEMOIR V. Cursory Remarks concerning the manner in which the Cause of Fever, especially that of West Indian Fever, impresses the Body 193