History of the Walcheren remittent, commencing with its advanced state, when most dangerous & destructive to the soldiery : and concluding with its very favourable termination ... Also the sequels, anaemia, acholia, Aegytian opthalmia &c. &c. elucidated by dissections / by Thomas Wright.

  • Wright, Thomas, active 1811.
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1811
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Credit: History of the Walcheren remittent, commencing with its advanced state, when most dangerous & destructive to the soldiery : and concluding with its very favourable termination ... Also the sequels, anaemia, acholia, Aegytian opthalmia &c. &c. elucidated by dissections / by Thomas Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Xll. The ventilation is so very perfect on this ex- posed promontory, that from the sea every wind from E.S.E. to S. W. brushes away the vapors, and as the prevailing winds are between or from these points, particularly the S.AV. varying sometimes to the northward of West, without hedge, tree, or bank, no noxious vapours can rest for a moment except in a calm, at which time only, fogs occur; for the slightest breeze from the land or sea immediately disperses them—nor is a fog ever induced by any wind, though marshes extend inland to a consider- able distance on the River Orwell West, and even to windward on the bay between Harwich and the Naze, but as the marsh miasmata fly before every breeze, and the ground is so high that the heavier and more noxious are driven along the surface of the sea as the lowest level, they are quickly dispersed; and as the land winds from the North seldom blow, nonrespi- rable vapours produced inland rarely prevail long enough to become injurious, and yet these b^ve very insalubrious and permanent influ-