Observations on hepatic diseases, incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies / by Stephen Mathews.

Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on hepatic diseases, incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies / by Stephen Mathews. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    epidemical diftempdrs is generally fixed between the ceffation of the rainy and the commencement of the dry cooler feafon. This juncture is more alarming and per- nicious to Europeans than any other feafon of the year. If we take a review of the ftate of the atmofphere during the rains, and the con- fequences refalting from the earth being overloaded with water, and the powers of abforption choaked by the fame caufe, we fhall eafily conc&ive how difagreeable fach a fituation muft prove, and molt readily join our opinion with thofe^ who expe- rience the fatality of thefe tranfitions. As the rains diminifli, the fun frequently burfts forth with great heat, and, as the ' feafon declines, his appearance, though pleafing, is more pernicious; for the fun's rays, being almoft continual, occafion a heavy exhalation of various vapours, which cannot by any means be falutary. To an atmofphere, therefore, impregna- ted with different effluvia, aflifted by the heat of the fun peculiar to thefe climates, and the moifture of the earth, we are not B 3 in