A brief history of the late expedition against Fort San Juan, so far as it relates to the diseases of the troops: together with some observations on climate, infection and contagion; and several of the endemial complaints of the West-Indies / [Thomas Dancer].
- Thomas Dancer
- Date:
- [1781]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A brief history of the late expedition against Fort San Juan, so far as it relates to the diseases of the troops: together with some observations on climate, infection and contagion; and several of the endemial complaints of the West-Indies / [Thomas Dancer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![43 O F T II E F E V ERS or effed upon the general health : what has been fo often affirmed, of the putrid nature of it under fome fevers, is totally devoid of proof, and the opinion has probably been drawn merely from fome unufual appearances in it, from an admixture of other matters 9 k > • .**. f ‘ 4T. ■ -I ' Another circumftance of difficulty refpeding this the-* ory, is, that as diffedions have never fhewn any obftrudion of the gal!-dud, as in the cafe of jaundice, how fhquld the bile be more than ufual abforbed ? 'f It is even allowed, by thofe who adopt this notion, that the iderical colour of the body, or yellow fuffitfion under the fkin, in fome bad fevers, proceeds more from a putrid diiTolutjon of the blood and exudation of the ferum, than to a proper jaundice or admixture of bile with the fluids ---There is no doubt but the notion of thefe fevers originating from the bile, took its rife from the yellow findure qf the fkin; but this we fee is owing to another caufe: we7 fee, that the bile is not abforbed in an uncommon quantity, nar does it appear certainly, that the bile fuffers any material change from its natural ftate; why then fhould the bile be fufpedec] on this occafion ?—-But, admitting every thing that has been faid concerning the bile, we may fall doubt whether the efFed is not taken for the caufe. An increafed fecretion of bile, and a vitiated ftate of it, may attend fevers, without being the _ * * Hi £ be r dine in thf Medic. Tranfadh f Mokrs’s Difcafes of the Army. X Lind’s Difcafes of hot Climates.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30792198_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
