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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    ‘out, and which I have wifhed to guard you: again{t, viz. The fun’s influence, ‘cold, moifture, and the vapour of marfhes. Thefe caufes feldom a& alone ; they are generally conjoined, and affift one another ; and they require a certain ftate of the conftirution before they can produce any fevere or fatal effect. This conftitution confifts. in a relaxed and weakened deviation from the natural ftate; and this is always attended with a lownefs of fpirits, particularly when it is induced by intemperance and late hours. Thefe things are well known to ) thofe who indulge in irregularities of this kind; for they are conftantly the morning-vifitors after a debauch. If the effects of fuch a conduct were confined to the difagreeable feelings I have men- tioned, the unhealthy impropriety of it would not be fo material ; but when it~ is found that thefe feelings give a fa- vourable oppertunity to the deleterious action