A sketch (analytical) of the history and cure of contagious fever / by Robert Jackson, M.D.

  • Robert Jackson
Date:
1819
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Credit: A sketch (analytical) of the history and cure of contagious fever / by Robert Jackson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    discharges, among the sick of Lord Moira^s army, is not within the knowledge of the writer. The fact stated, viz. that it was greater in the general hospital at Soulhampton than in the different regimental hospitals in the vicinitj'^, is correct. The general hospital at Southamp- ton was amply provided with every comfort, exce]>t pure air, that sick men could require, and that England could supply. Its chief medical officers were physicians of the universities ; its economy was arranged, and its order superin- tended by a man of experience in the army, and of some reputation in his profession. It is ne- cessary to say this; but it is not said as ob- liquely implying censure to the physicians or the superintendant-general of Southampton hospital. It is the statement of a fact which, with other similar statements, may, perhaps, in future times, induce those who preside over the affairs of nations, to inspect localities, and to estimate their properties, as relative to health, before they give orders to found establishments for the reception of the sick of armies. I do not consider it as rash to maintain that mortality would have been less than it actually was, if the sick of Lord Moira's army had found no other shelter than the lee-side qf a hedge, and no other covering and comfort than a blanket and a jug of water. The assertion is bold ; but it is true, and easily understood. A granary, Qr malt-house of several stories, the apartments
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