A few facts and observations on the yellow fever of the West Indies. By which it is shewn, that there have existed two species of fever in the West-India islands ... indiscriminately called yellow fever, but which have proceeded from very different causes. With the success attending the method of cure ... / [James Anderson].

  • Anderson, James, -1826
Date:
1798
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Credit: A few facts and observations on the yellow fever of the West Indies. By which it is shewn, that there have existed two species of fever in the West-India islands ... indiscriminately called yellow fever, but which have proceeded from very different causes. With the success attending the method of cure ... / [James Anderson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *3 ) taken ill in the fame way as one of the pri¬ vateer’s men he had lately been with ; and upon inquiring into the matter, I found, that Benfon had, two days before, been pall¬ ing by a houfe, in which he obferved a failor, lying upon a bed, feemingly in great diftrefs. Humanity led the corporal to ren¬ der all the affiftance in his power to the dying man ; and he had only remained with him about half an hour, when the failor expired in the arms of this benevolent fol- dier. I am forry to add, that the poor corporal fhared the fame fate, on the 5th day of the difeafe. I was much {truck with this hidden event, but was ferioufly alarmed next morning, when I found two of the corporal’s com¬ panions, who had been particularly attentive to him during his illnefs, taken in the fame way.