Observations on the disease called the plague, the dysentery, the ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the means of prevention. : With some remarks on the yellow fever of Cadiz, and the description and plan of an hospital for the reception of patients affected with epidemic and contagious diseases / by P. Assalini ; translated from the French by Adam Neale.

  • Assalini, Paolo.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Observations on the disease called the plague, the dysentery, the ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the means of prevention. : With some remarks on the yellow fever of Cadiz, and the description and plan of an hospital for the reception of patients affected with epidemic and contagious diseases / by P. Assalini ; translated from the French by Adam Neale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    trees, cover this city on the south and the east sides. The chain of mountains which stretch from north to south, oppose a bar- rier to the clouds brought by the winds from the west and north, and give rise to the formation of thick mists and heavy rains, which take place in this part of Sy- ria during the winter and spring. The nature of the soil, and the want of ditches and canals to drain the ground, occasion several ponds or marshes, which can only be carried off by evaporation. The French army, on its arrival at Jaffa, en- camped close to three of these ponds, the waters of which supplied their wants till their departure for Acre. On the taking of Jaffa by assault, the number of Turks killed and half buried ; the bodies of those whom the sea threw back, and left on the shores; the miasmata arising from the putrefaction of the carcas- ses of the horses and camels left dead upon the ground, or dragged scarcely beyond- B5