An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794 / by C. Chisholm.

  • Chisholm, Colin, 1755-1825.
Date:
1795
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Credit: An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794 / by C. Chisholm. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ous and unneccilary, I have given only that - of the three firft years ; and to illuftrate my Obion ations on the Malignant PeftilentiaJ Fever, I have added the journal oftne wea- ther for the year 1793. Dr. Hillary is the only medical writer I am acquainted with, who has given the public any account of the weather of tliefe iilailds; but, although his very able account may be very ufeful to practitioners in Barbadoes, and other iflands whofe furface is comparatively level, and whofe hills rife only to a trifling height, and in no mftance exhibit the wild and pic- turcfque fcenes of Grenada, St.Vincent, Do- hiinica, and a few others, it is not fo here : and the reafon is evident. The windings of the innumerable hills in Grenada pro- duce a change of temperature at the end of every hundred yards; under their fhelter the heat is often aknolt. unfupportable, and the body is bathed in the moll profufe fweat: beyond this, turning an angle, and being 'fuddenly expofed to the prevailing winds, which there blow with violence, propor- tioned to the narrow vallics which confine them, the body is in an initant dried up: an aguim fcnfation takes place, and not un- frequently