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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    the lummer and autumnal months, or that portion of the year which includes the rainy and warm feaibn, remittent fevers, dyfen- teries, flight colics, cholera morbus, phrenetic complaints, or what the French call Coup de Sokil, occafioned by the intenfe folar heat, ulcers of the legs, particularly thofe of the herpetic kind, are the moil prevalent dis- orders. And in the marmy diftri&s at this time of the year, obftinate and irregular in- termittents, generally depending on glan- dular obftruclion and vifceral inflammation, remittents of the worn: kind, and hepatic dyfenteries, are very common, frequently epidemic, and too often fatal. During the winter and fpring, when northerly winds blow, and occaflon an -uncommon and dif- agreeable chillnefs; but when the atmo- fphere is generally lefs moirl; than at any other time of the year, pleurifies, often at- tended with fever, catarrhal fevers, rheu- matic fevers, ophthalmias, inflammatory an- ginas, eryhpelas frequently preceded by fever, chronic rheumatifm, and the Guinea-worm are 11 It will appear lingular to the European reader, that the dracunculus, or Guinea-worm, fhould beclaffed D among