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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    total fufpenfion of vegetation during this feafon is furprifmg, and feems to be oc- cafioned by the want of moilture, and the exiccative Ihrivelling quality of the north- erly winds. That it is to be attributed chiefly to the latter is evident, from the in- efficacy of the rain which fometimes falls very plentifully in the dry months, in ex- citing a fpring in vegetables: when how- ever they are longer continued than ufual, their vegetative power faintly difcovers it- felf; but is never permanent. All deci- duous trees are flriped of their leaves; the patlures become parched and brown; the cane-fields lofe their vivid green, and af- fume the autumnal hue of northern climes. The latter months of this feafon are the moft. pleafant of the year; Nature beginning to recover from the torpor in which fhe had been funk, gives new life to the whole vegetable creation; and fo great is the ve- getative power difplayed at this period, that leaves and blofToms are feen mooting forth on the fame tree, with fruits already formed., and fall approaching to maturity. Nothing can equal the delightful frefhnefs of the mornings, and the foftnefs of the evenings of