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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    there were-likewife found in the almanack many days: _ fevers and flight feverith diforders, the invafion of the greateft number of which was likewife in the ufual period. . ice lak aus The above is a literal ftate of the cafe as it ftood, in the almanack :—fome remarks and obfervations,. however, were added, of which the following are'the principal: viz, That, though the whole of the fe. cond and laft quarters of the moon is included in this: period. of invalion; yet the four days immediately Preceding new and full moon, were more parti- cularly diftinguifhed for thofe febrile attacks: that in the dry feafon, which. is reckoned the moft healthy,.. the time of invafion was more clofely connected with the new and full moon, than: in: the wet and fickly months, particularly when the ficknefs was epidemic,, or of a. bad kind: and laftly, that this influence, or _ €onnexion was more apparent in the foldiers of the _ garrifon, who were expofed to few occafions of dif. _ @afe, excefs in drinking excepted, than in the inha~ bitants of the town and country, whofe occupations: carried them oftner to places of unhealthy fituation or whofe modes of life obliged them to fubmit to more. various hardfhips or to gréater fatigues than fell to the lot of a foldier in times of peace. ; I thal] further beg leave to add, that I went to join the army: in America, in the year 1778; and that I continued in that country, the train of obfer- _ Vation on this fubject, which I had begun in the Weft Indies. ‘The regiment, in which I ferved, was en- camped during the months of June and. July ona healthy part of York-ifland. Fevers were rare ; and the time of invafion, of fuch as did appear, was chiefly confined to the fecond and laft quarters of the moon. Th the beginning of Augutft, the encampment was _temoved to King’s-bridge, where it occupied a very- unhealthy fituation. cn intermitting fever foon Stats . 2
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