Synopsis morborum : A summary view of observations on the principal diseases incident to seamen or soldiers, whether engaged in actual service or retired from it, carefully abridged and digested, from the latest ed. of the author's works, in four volumes. Designed chiefly for the use of professional practitioners in the navy and army. In two volumes.

  • Robertson, Robert, 1742-1829.
Date:
1810-11
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Credit: Synopsis morborum : A summary view of observations on the principal diseases incident to seamen or soldiers, whether engaged in actual service or retired from it, carefully abridged and digested, from the latest ed. of the author's works, in four volumes. Designed chiefly for the use of professional practitioners in the navy and army. In two volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    edly have great influence on the animal economy, as well as on the animal, vegetable, and aqueous parts of our diet. These circumstances, I think, are sufficient to predispose us to be infected by each other, whenever fever occurs in any family ; without supposing atmospheric or aerial infectious miasmata, or marsh effluvia, to be the cause. Marsh effluvia have likewise unjustly been con- sidered as the remote cause of fevers, which, un- less in the sense I have hereafter explained, I can- not admit; because, by marsh effluvia is gene- rally meant noxious particles, exhaled from marshes, and when applied to the body, are sup- posed capable of producing the same effects on the constitution as atmospheric effluvia. But though there is something peculiarly noxious in unventilated air, as every person allows, and con- sequently in the air and vapour suspended within a certain distance of the horizontal plane of marshes, overhung by shrubs, reeds, sedges, and other aquatics under which both animal and vegetable matters die and putrify, I do not be- lieve that this vapour is ever carried to any con- siderable distance in its noxious state; or that it ever is the cause of fever, except in such instan- ces as happened while I was on board the Weasel, in Gambia river, and on board the Rainbow, at Sierra Leon, and St. Thomas's, where people were immersed in noxious stagnant air when walking in them. [See vol i. and ii.]