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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    dle-greafe, and repeat the operation three or four times; they then wrap it up, and a few hours after, the prickles fall out. The pain ceafes after the firft application of the heat and greafe. I have already obferved, that Grenada furpaffes almoft all the Windward and Leeward iflands in the abundance and good- nefs of its water. I may add, that it alfo excels in its medicinal fprings: lome of thefe are hot, but the greater! number are cold. Of the former the moll noted are thofe of Duquefne Valley, lituated in the parifli of St. Patrick. The temperature of the .hotter! of thefe fprings is 116 degrees ; and from their habitudes with precipitants, compared with Bergman's Analylis r% they appear to contain a confiderable por- tion of iron, magneha, a mineral alkali, and common fait. Aerated acid is not indicated by lime-water, or the blue flowers of the vervein. Their fmell is pretty much hepatifedj from which, and their heat, it is probable they contain a final! portion of fulphur in a very volatile Hate. They 12 Bergman's Chemical EfTays, Vol. I. have