Remarks on the bilious remittent fever of Africa : its treatment and precautions to be used in dangerous localities / by Horace Waller.

  • Horace Waller
Date:
1885
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Credit: Remarks on the bilious remittent fever of Africa : its treatment and precautions to be used in dangerous localities / by Horace Waller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. -♦- f LETTER written to the Times* on the subject of African Fever and its treatment, has led to such a demand for further information, that, in order to meet it, a few additional notes seem called for. In offering the following observations, the writer is met with this difficulty: he remembers he is not a member of the medical profession. On the other hand, the layman-like way of expressing himself to which he is in consequence forced to resort, may in itself be better understood by those into whose hands this treatise falls—for he only writes for the bush and the field, not for the surgery. Meddling, however, requires a a serious justification. Such in his case he would venture to say is afforded by a continuous experience of fever and its treatment in very unhealthy regions of East Africa during nearly four years ; and he remembers, with deep thankfulness, the pains Dr. Livingstone, Sir John Kirk, Dr. Meller, and Mr. Dickinson took, in their medical capacity, to instruct him in such a manner as to make their knowledge and practice available in his hands for the relief of some hundreds of cases. *25th September, 1873,
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