A treatise on the fevers of Jamaica, with some observations on the intermitting fever of America, and an appendix, containing some hints on the means of preserving the health of soldiers in hot climates [and notes to the treatise] / By Robert Jackson.

  • Robert Jackson
Date:
1795
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Credit: A treatise on the fevers of Jamaica, with some observations on the intermitting fever of America, and an appendix, containing some hints on the means of preserving the health of soldiers in hot climates [and notes to the treatise] / By Robert Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which I was acquainted while] remained in that country, furnifhed me with a motive for. the undertaking ; a motive, which may be thought, perhaps, no — . longer to exift, as two treatifes have been publifhed lately by Dr. Hunter afid Dr. Mofeley, exprefsly on the difeafes of which [have written. I might remark, that the prefent attempt, fuch as it is, was nearly completed before the trea- _tifes to which I allude came to my hands. The views which they afford of fevers, as they differ from each other, fo they likewife differ from thofe which I have entured to advance. I have weighed their merits maturely, and cannot fay. that I difcover any information, which gives me caule to change thofe opinions | which I had formed, or which renders the publication of the prefent work