Andalusia; or, notes, tending to shew that the yellow fever of the West Indies, and of Andalusia in Spain, was a disease well known to the ancients; and that they assigned a cause for it, and used effective means for the prevention and cure of it, not hitherto attempted in our time. (This treatise is not intended for publication.) / [Robert Deverell].

  • Deverell, Robert, 1760-1841
Date:
[1805]
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Credit: Andalusia; or, notes, tending to shew that the yellow fever of the West Indies, and of Andalusia in Spain, was a disease well known to the ancients; and that they assigned a cause for it, and used effective means for the prevention and cure of it, not hitherto attempted in our time. (This treatise is not intended for publication.) / [Robert Deverell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Had by him, ere he parted thence, a son Much like his father (V), but his mother more, names to the word guard, as well in the tautologous expression, “ for their defence and guard,” as by a similar play upon words in many future passages; and they may be called the offspring of such parents from the relation which all rivers bear to the sea, (e) Without my entering at large into a mythological disquisition of the character of Bacchus, which I have detailed in a more proper place, let it be granted me that he (here) represents South America and the ice upon the Andes; and that Circe, whose fable I have also very fully explained elsewhere, represents the southern part of North America, together with the Great Gulf of the West Indies. And let it be also granted me, till I enter more fully upon that point in treating by and by of the fourth Georgic, that for a certain period of the year (more particularly assigned hereafter) the ice upon the Andes, melted by the sun’s heat, descends in a vast flood down the river Plate, but being checked at the mouth of that river (by a cause assigned also hereafter), it recoils upon its source, and crossing the whole southern continent from south to north, afterwards finds a passage to the sea, in part perhaps down the Amazon, but principally down the Oroonoko, and other rivers that find their way round the head-land on the northern side of South America into the Great Gulf of the West Indies, after traversing the country denominated by D’Anville in his map “ plain land overflowed in the rainy season ;” that it proceeds from thence through the Gulf of Florida in a north-eastern direction across the Atlantic (particularly at and 5