Observations on the epidemical diseases in Minorca. From the year 1744 to 1749. To which is prefixed, a short account of the climate, productions, inhabitants, and endemial distempers of that island / By George Cleghorn.

  • Cleghorn, George, 1716-1789.
Date:
1779
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the epidemical diseases in Minorca. From the year 1744 to 1749. To which is prefixed, a short account of the climate, productions, inhabitants, and endemial distempers of that island / By George Cleghorn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ¥ the Fevers, which have, of late Years, been epidemical in Minorca, I thought it would not be improper, in the firft Place, to give a fhort Account of the Nature of the Climate; the Qualities of the Soil, and its Productions; the Manners of the Inhabitants ; their Diet, and Way of Life; and to mention fome other Difeafes to which they are peculiarly {ubject. | The following Introdu@tion is intended — for this Purpofe; and the Reader will | B eafily