Volume 2

An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793, 1794, 1795, and 1796 [...] / by C. Chisholm.

  • Chisholm, Colin, 1755-1825.
Date:
1801
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Credit: An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793, 1794, 1795, and 1796 [...] / by C. Chisholm. 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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    ( < ) the obfervatlons of Dr. Guthrie, t)r. Ilu-fTcI, an6 others, and the ingenious and fcientific fpccula- tions of Dr. Mitchell, have thrown much I'lght on the manner in which thefe caufes adl to pro- duce fo dreadful an efFe<5l. The Baron de Tott has givers the publi'C a moll important obfervation •with refpe(5l to the manner in which the plague is propagated at Conftantinople: Quoiqu'il en foit il n'y a point d'incertitude fur le foyer qui la eonferve, ni fur les caufes que la propagent. On retrouve I'un: et Fautre chez les marchands fripiers de Conftantinople, et ehez les particuliers qui confervent dans leurs cofFres tous les vetc- ments, les fouroures meme des perfonnes mortes de la pefte. C'eft fans doute prendre le moyen le plus efficace pour en fbmenitGr et en pcrpetuer Ic germe, &c. This obfervation was fully illuf- trated by the conduct of individttals in the lower clafs of the inhabitants of St. GeoTge's, Grenada. Many of thefe derive their fiiibfiftence from re- tailing rum of the cheapeft and worft quality td failors^ foldiers, and failor and porter negroes; and as the detedlion of this pra^d:ice, which is not permitted by law, might be deftru^^ive to their views, and ruinous to their little capitals, they carry it on in booths, and fmali wooden buildings of little value, ercdcd near the wharfs, 0£