Observations on the diseases which appeared in the Army on St. Lucia, in 1778 and 1779. To which are prefixed, remarks calculated to assist in ascertaining the causes, and in explaining the treatment, of those diseases. With an appendix, containing a short address to military gentleman on the means of preserving health in the West-Indies / [John Rollo].

  • Rollo, John, -1809
Date:
1781
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Credit: Observations on the diseases which appeared in the Army on St. Lucia, in 1778 and 1779. To which are prefixed, remarks calculated to assist in ascertaining the causes, and in explaining the treatment, of those diseases. With an appendix, containing a short address to military gentleman on the means of preserving health in the West-Indies / [John Rollo]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ; 146 A SHORT ADDRESS. TO THE healthy part of the ifland; and this is chiefly owing to the river and marfhy ground which are fituated nearly to windward of it. The healthy and plea- fant ifland of St. Chriftopher has its Baffeterre; and this is fickly from the fame caufe, having a fwamp in its neighbourhood, Some years ago they had a fever, which firft made its appear- -ance in this town, and was more fevere and fatal than in the other parts of the ifland.. Englifh-Harbour, in Antigua, is, from the like caufe, unhealthy. To- bago, Grenada, and St. Vincent,. have their fickly fpots, and thefe arife from the wood and marfh. As the healthy parts of an ifland, therefore, confift in being frce from woods and marfhes, thefe fituations ought, if poffible, to be fixed on: the more elevated they are, and lefs furrounded. by hills, or any obftacle to the paffing wind, they be- “Come better adapted both for pleafure . and