Rational advice to the military, when exposed to the inclemency of hot climates and seasons / by Andrew Wilson.

  • Andrew Wilson
Date:
1780
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rational advice to the military, when exposed to the inclemency of hot climates and seasons / by Andrew Wilson. 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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    f [ > In fuch obfcure and intricate fub-» jeds as that of the origin and remote caufes of difeafes; efFed:s and caufes are too often confounded, inverted in their order and influence, and miftaken for each other. Bile being a leading fymptom in all the endemics and epidemics of hot countries and feafons, we are apt to flop fhort here, without making any further enquiry, why fuch climates and fealbhs.fliould fo uniformly and univeffally generate that malignant lymptom? Perhaps if that could be difcovered and afcertained, the whole feries of difeafes, that feem to have any connexion with a vitiated ftate of the bile, might in a great meafure be obviated and prevented, It