Report on yellow fever / by James Gillkrest.

  • Gillkrest, J. (James), -1853.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Report on yellow fever / by James Gillkrest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Appendix I. Report op Dr. Gielkhest ..... Remittent type of the Disease - . . . lAlgid cases • General History of the Disease .... Gibraltar, Epidemics at Board of Inquiry into Epidemic of 1828, notice of Sanitary condition of Gibraltar Hospital Orderlies, exemption of . . . Susceptible persons, exemption of . hleteorological influences Concurrent authorities ..... Plan of Gibraltar and references West Indies, Yellow Fever in the . Medical Officers, Reports of ... • America, opinions oJ^Physicians of . . Spain, Yellow Fever in African Coast, Fever on the . Ships, outbreaks of Fever on board of PAOE 141, 153, 147, 151, 137 197 145 146 158 161 164 167 170 177 179 180 182 183 188 190 196 199 We are indebted to Dr. Gillkrest, Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, for a valuable monograph on one of the most carefully observed outbreaks of Yellow Fever on record, namely, the Yellow Fever epidemic at Gibraltar, in 1828. An abstract of this im. portant’paper recently presented to the Academy of Medicine of France, has called forth the high approbation of that body, and we have given the original document at length, (Appendix No. T.,) as being not only an account of this particular epidemic by an eye. witness, in which the main events are ably analysed and succinctly described, but as recording the general experience of a long professional life devoted to the study and history of this particular disease.—(General Board of Health p. 7, oj the Second Report to her Majesti/ on Quarantine.) At the recommendation of the celebrated French Physician Dr. Ihomasof Now Orleans, who bad witnessed several severe Yellow Fever Epidemics, before he wrote upon that disease, I ivitncssod two severe Epidemics in the West Indies, and one nt Gibraltar before T took upon me so serious a responsibility.