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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    of fever. ‘The circumftances, indeed, which I have mentioned, are fo clear and unequivocal as to leave little room for doubt: nor did I entertain any, till I found that the obfervations of Dr. Balfour, on this fubject, were fo ftrikingly different from mine. Ben- gal and Jamaica are diftant from each other; yet few people will be difpofed to believe, that fo great mo- dification of a general caufe has arifen folely from this diverfity of climate. Dr. Balfour muft fpeak for himfelf. For my own part, I can only fay, that what Ifaw I have related with truth. As I] have told the manner in which the idea arofe, with the manner in which the inveftigation was conducted, I leave the eonclufion to be formed by the reader. ae G 3
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