Remarks on the epidemic yellow fever, which appeared at intervals on the South Coasts of Spain, since the year 1800 ... / [Robert Jackson].

  • Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Remarks on the epidemic yellow fever, which appeared at intervals on the South Coasts of Spain, since the year 1800 ... / [Robert Jackson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to ascertain distinctly whether or not it was contagious, took the liberty of making an offer to the British Government, through the Director General of the medical department of the British army, to undertake the investi¬ gation of the subject, and to proceed to Ca¬ diz for that purpose without loss of time, and without any other condition than a pas¬ sage free of expense, and such form of intro¬ duction to the Spanish Authorities as would enable him to prosecute his object without interruption. The offer was made as soon as the newspapers announced the appearance of the malady; and, in five or six weeks there¬ after, an answer was transmitted to the wri- V }. L . * - . • f ' - \ * • • ter, who then lived in the country, that the 3 j 3 Spanish Government was not averse, and that the Secretary of State for war and colo¬ nies, (to whose office it would appear the matter had been referred,) was not unwilling to defray the expense of the passage to the place where the disease was. The author set out for London immediately on the receipt of the information: he was not able to set out for Cadiz in less than three weeks, detained, «, as it appeared, by the backwardness of the Spanish ambassador to grant the necessary ... - » papers to enable him to enter Spain. It was