Observations on the means of preserving and restoring health in the West-Indies.

  • Rollo, John, -1809.
Date:
MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the means of preserving and restoring health in the West-Indies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    night; however, by an attention to a few precautions, any injurious efFed: may be in a great meafure baffled. In all poffible cafes, fol- diers on centinel or other limilar duty ihould be iheltered by fome proper covering—a houfe, compact hut, tent, or the boxes commonly ufed. Every foldier on expofed duty ought to be provided with a watch-coat, which may be very eafily carried without obftrudting his fervice ; likewife, woollen flockings, whole gaters, and thick Ihoes, are infinitely more proper than the trowfersnow injudicioufly in ufe: and I here prefer the thick waillcoat and breeches to thofe made with nankeen and linen^