Observations, &c. on the epidemic disease, which lately prevailed at Gibraltar : intended to illustrate the nature of contagious fevers in general. [Pt. I] / by Seguin Henry Jackson.

  • Jackson, Seguin Henry, 1752-1816.
Date:
1806
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    THE PREFACE. THE universally known danger, and even acknowledged fata- lity, of the malignant epidemic fevers'of tropical climates, must stamp some degree of importance on the most humble attempt to elucidate the hidden nature of such dreadful maladies. To this general purpose the author’s mind has been devoted in the prosecution of his endeavours, to investigate the particular and specific nature of the late Gibraltar pestilence, by discovering, if possible, the immediate cause of its mortal tendency. In prosecuting these his views, he has met with nothing to shake his hopes of throwing some new light on this hitherto dreadful scourge on the inhabitants of the tropical climates. He flatters himself, that they will in a great measure tend to the security, as well as ease of mind and happiness, of mankind in general. When we consider the late mortality at Gibraltar, as arising from a disorder of a relative character to those endemic and epi- demic fevers, which have been ordinarily denominated the plague, the yellow fever, and the highly malignant typhus, the treatment of the subject must interest all those, who are des- tined to visit the countries, where such periodical complaints almost annually occur, and also all those inhabitants of the b