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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    and fmall patches of caffava and Indian corn are planted near the cabins or hovels of the indolent inhabitants, who ufually fix their abodes near rivu- lets. Banica is placed upon the banks of the Arti- bonite, where it is a fordable, but confiderable river. The air is light, and the heat, though fometimes high, is rarely oppreffive; an unaffimilated Euro- pean is capable of taking exercife, even of walking, without fatigue, and without danger. The detach- ment of cavalry fent to this place remained in good health till the period of their recal. SECT. II. The majority of the infantry, embarked at Gove in the month of November 1796, for the Iiland of St. Domingo, was originally of a bad quality; but in addition to the original quality, hardfhips on fhore, from bad accommodations during bad weather, and other caufes which deprefs the mind, and influence the health, require to be eftimated in viewing the hiftory of this expedition. In each r6giment or- dered for this fervice, the 67th excepted, a fever prevailed of a high degree of contagion and of great virulence. A difeafe appeared in the month cf October in dyfenteric form, in the encampment on Spike Iiland, and from unavoidable accumulation in the fort, the only place which could be obtained for an hofpital, the form changed to febrile, of great force, and latterly of great mortality. It does not belong to this place to trace in detail the caufes of