A treatise on the yellow fever, as it appeared in the Island of Dominica, in the years 1793-4-5-6: to which are added, observations on the bilious remittent fever, on intermittents, dysentery, and some other West India diseases; also, the chemical analysis and medical properties of the hot mineral waters in the same island / By James Clark, M.D.

  • Clark, James, -1819.
Date:
1797
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Credit: A treatise on the yellow fever, as it appeared in the Island of Dominica, in the years 1793-4-5-6: to which are added, observations on the bilious remittent fever, on intermittents, dysentery, and some other West India diseases; also, the chemical analysis and medical properties of the hot mineral waters in the same island / By James Clark, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    idrmity to aim oft any change* etfter of'ia-, create or deereafe of nourishment, or ofVia* bour, as well as of reft, confinement want’' of Deep, &c. &c. as it hasalftof breathing* a foul imwhgiofome 'air with little appacdifc injury to health, prcivioed any.or all of theft variations or dates of life, are brought about; gradually. Tne direction oi our ideas, antb die powers of thinking and ading, are irx. ail cafes influenced by cuftom. 'For theft* reafons, probably, new-comers are fpeedily- attacked with this fever after, their arrival* • j even in places, where it does not prevail*; j and this gives it fo much the appearance afi an infectious difeafe, where it has a 1 ready i -\ broke out. ' . r / . ''' • '} *t.'l 4 hfl «. * i • i ». «. X » ' • 4 !'• > ■< H id liin I r vi & A deranged date of the atmofphere, as. mentioned before, feemed to me to be the firft caufe that excited this mortal difeafe Fl- our iiland ; and as it prevailed in the differ- . eat towns of the other iflands, the more; they were crowded with ftrangers, I am in> dined to believe, that it proceeded from the fame caufe in them all, aided, and perhaps put' in adion, by the great concourfe. of