A practical medico-historical account of the western coast of Africa : embracing a topographical description of its shores, rivers, and settlements, with their seasons and comparative healthiness : together with the causes, symptoms, and treatment, of the fevers of western Africa : and a similar account respecting the other diseases which prevail there / by James Boyle, M.C.S.L., colonial surgeon to Sierra Leone, surgeon R.N., etc.

  • Boyle, James, active 1831.
Date:
MDCCCXXXI [1831]
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Credit: A practical medico-historical account of the western coast of Africa : embracing a topographical description of its shores, rivers, and settlements, with their seasons and comparative healthiness : together with the causes, symptoms, and treatment, of the fevers of western Africa : and a similar account respecting the other diseases which prevail there / by James Boyle, M.C.S.L., colonial surgeon to Sierra Leone, surgeon R.N., etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    It now becomes the pleasing duty of the author to mention the sources, in addition to personal experience, from whence he has derived his information. To Sir WilHam Burnett, M. D., and Sir James Macgrigor, M. D., he is deeply indebted for their kind and liberal indulgence, in affording him every facility of access to the different official documents respecting the Coast of Africa, which are preserved in the archives of the establishments, at the heads of which those justly re- spected members of the profession have so pre-emi- nently distinguished themselves. To the reports of Mr. Whitelaw, surgeon, R. N., Mr. John Bell, staff- surgeon, and the late Mr. Tedlie, acting staff-surgeon, the author is peculiarly indebted. The labours of others of his medical brethren have been consulted, and often furnished extracts ; but, as the names of the writers are invariably set forth in the body of the work, it is not, perhaps, necessary they should be enumerated here. All comment upon the conduct or writings of others, which might be mistaken either for adulation or ungenerous remark, has been studiously and scrupu- lously avoided. In extenuation of the imperfections of the work the author might urge many difficulties which he has had to