Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong, ... To which is added an inquiry into the facts connected with those forms of fever attributed to malaria or marsh effluvium / by Francis Boott.

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1833-34
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Credit: Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong, ... To which is added an inquiry into the facts connected with those forms of fever attributed to malaria or marsh effluvium / by Francis Boott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cities I think no impartial person can doubt, from the general contrast afforded, in this inquiry, be- tween the epidemics of the sea-coast and those of the interior. The confined limits of the disease; its prevalence in low alluvial districts ; the striking origin of the epidemic at New London ; the coincidence of cause and effect in Boston and New York ; the occur- rence of fever on ship-board under circumstances like those described by Dr. Burnett,—all point to local causes of contaminated air ; and this will ex- plain the prevalence of fever in the close, crowded, and filtliv part of the towns and cities of this country. That yellow fever cannot be considered a con- tagious disease is proved beyond all question. It is not communicable by the sick, in domestic life or in hospitals. The matter of black vomit has been swallowed, and applied to the body in a va- riety of ways, without any effect. We have seen that the typhus of New York and Boston was as incommunicable there as yellow fever ; and Dr. Gallup’s experience in Vermont was uniformly against anything like a contagious character. In the next volume I shall offer a comparison of the fevers of Europe with those of America. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. VKINTKD BY Kinuuil TAYLOR, RKU LION COURT, FLEET STREET,