Remarks on the yellow fever of the south and east coasts of Spain : comprehending observations made on the spot, by actual survey of localities, and rigorous examination of fact at original sources of information / by Thomas O'Halloran.

Date:
1823
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Credit: Remarks on the yellow fever of the south and east coasts of Spain : comprehending observations made on the spot, by actual survey of localities, and rigorous examination of fact at original sources of information / by Thomas O'Halloran. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    usually called yellow fever; and, in that belief, I have taken the liberty of sub- mitting them to the consideration of the public. The substance of the remarks was sent in a Report to the Director General of the Medical Department of the Army; hut as I do not know, officially, that it has been received, and as I believe the matter of it to he not unimportant to the interests of mankind, I take this method of making it known. I do so with the conviction, that if the statements within, which are per- fectly authenticated, make no impression on the public mind, the delusion under which it now labours may probably be perpetual ; for it is scarcely possible that any thing stronger than what is here jnven can arise from farther research. The author being young, and unwilling to be thought presumptuous, has abstained from remark on the law of quarantine, though intimately connected with the sub- ject on which he writes. He is ready to admit, that if any given disease have the property of communicating itself to persons in health by contact or near approach, in-
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