Letters and essays on the small-pox and inoculation, the measles, the dry belly-ache, the yellow, and remitting, and intermitting fevers of the West Indies. To which are added, thoughts on the hydrocephalus internus, and observations on hydatides in the heads of cattle / By different practioners [John Quier, Thomas Fraser, John Hume, George Monro, Ambrose Dawson, Dr. Dowdeswell. Addressed (except Hume's essay) to D. Monro and editied by him].

Date:
1778
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Credit: Letters and essays on the small-pox and inoculation, the measles, the dry belly-ache, the yellow, and remitting, and intermitting fevers of the West Indies. To which are added, thoughts on the hydrocephalus internus, and observations on hydatides in the heads of cattle / By different practioners [John Quier, Thomas Fraser, John Hume, George Monro, Ambrose Dawson, Dr. Dowdeswell. Addressed (except Hume's essay) to D. Monro and editied by him]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wind blows ftrongly, the cold is quite intenfe for this latitude, and obliges us to keep a conftant fire. On the 15 th of this inftant (January at 7 o’clock in the rnorning), the mercury in my thermometer was deprefled to 51° at this place ; which, though cool, is none of the coldeft in the ifiand. A prodigious quantity of rain falls in the courfe of a year, and the air is always fo moifl; that metals will ruft, however great, the care taken of them: lixivial falts. can fcarcely be foxclofely corked in bottles, but they will dif- folve j and wearing apparel, and whatever elfe that is in the leaft lia¬ ble to grow mouldy, is kept in chefts; and, where the air is confined, can¬ not be preferved from it but by fre¬ quently expofing them to the fun. In the low lands it rains but feldom', and when it does, it defcends in tor¬ rents ; but, in the mountains, the rain falls oftener and more gradually. In