Report on the climate and principle diseases of the African station; compiled from the documents in the office of the Director-General of the Medical Department, and from other sources: in compliance with the directions of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty / Under the immediate direction of Sir William Burnett. By Alexander Bryson.

  • Bryson, Alexander, 1802-1869.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Report on the climate and principle diseases of the African station; compiled from the documents in the office of the Director-General of the Medical Department, and from other sources: in compliance with the directions of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty / Under the immediate direction of Sir William Burnett. By Alexander Bryson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. With the view of explaining the circumstances which led to the production of the following pages, it is necessary to state, that they were compiled in consequence of a Minute from the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, addressed to Sir William Burnett the Director General of the Medical Department of the Navy, requesting him to cause to be embodied in a Report such portions of the Medical Returns from the African Station as might be deemed valuable. The writer, in his official capacity, was therefore directed by Sir William to go over the whole of the returns received into office since the year 1820, and to extract from them in a condensed form whatever matter either of informa- tion or interest they might contain, at all calculated to be made available for that purpose. This having been com- pleted with as little delay as possible, he had then in the lat- ter part of December last the honor to be further directed to proceed in arranging the matter so obtained, with what- ever information he could furnish from his own personal ex- perience on the station, in such form as might be considered