An outline of the history and cure of fever, endemic and contagious : more expressly the contagious fevers of jails, ships, & hospitals, the concentrated endemic, vulgarly called the yellow fever of the West Indies : to which is added, an explanation of the principles of military discipline & economy, with a scheme of medical arrangement for the army : and a refuation of the strictures made by the late Dr. Currie on that part of the work which relates to the affusion of cold water on the surface / by Robert Jackson, M.D.

  • Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.
Date:
1808
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Credit: An outline of the history and cure of fever, endemic and contagious : more expressly the contagious fevers of jails, ships, & hospitals, the concentrated endemic, vulgarly called the yellow fever of the West Indies : to which is added, an explanation of the principles of military discipline & economy, with a scheme of medical arrangement for the army : and a refuation of the strictures made by the late Dr. Currie on that part of the work which relates to the affusion of cold water on the surface / by Robert Jackson, M.D. 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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    convalefcents might undergo a purification, and acquire fome degree of ftrength previous to their return to their refpective regiments. With thefe means of accommodation, deficient in a prodigious degree, the buiinefs was dragged on to the middle of January : from this period the fick- nefs increafed fo faft, and fo far outran the cafualty of the hofpital, that a necefiity arofe of fitting up every hovel, barn or liable in the ifland for the reception of fick : fome iheds were alfo conftrueted; and, by the middle of February, the accommoda- tion, though not of a good kind, was adequate in extent: the delay of thefe meafures is imputed to the daily expectation of failing. The ftate of health on board of the different tranfports deferves a remark ;—for it did not feem to be always connected with the actual cleanlinefs or lize of the veifel. The Indiamen were among the rooft fickly of the tranfports; yet fpace was there ample,—every thing was clean, and apparently in good order. In fome of the fmaller and confined fhips, where no praife of cleanlinefs was due, health fuffered little. There were alfo a few tranfports, in which were embarked detachments of unhealthy regiments, which experienced no ficknefs during the whole period of embarkation; a fact only to be explained, by fuppofing that the feeds of conta- gion, either by accident, or by a more than ordi- nary attention in feparating the unfound from the found, had not been received on board. On the fame caufe perhaps depends the explanation of a C iij