Observations on the means of preserving and restoring health in the West-Indies ... / [John Rollo].

  • John Rollo
Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on the means of preserving and restoring health in the West-Indies ... / [John Rollo]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pe a, that of St. Lucia and Tobago. The two former, comparatively {fpeaking, are as healthy as any {pots in Europe; and the two latter are quite the reverfe; the diffe- rence arifes from rain, marthes, woods, and uncultivated ground, Heat therefore, even although pro- duced by the vertical rays of the fun, is not the principal caufe * of * It may be doubted whether the fun’s heat is a caufe of any difeafe except a tem= porary head-ach, or what is called the ** coup de foleil.”” Dr. Monro obferves, in his Treatife on the Difeafes of Soldiers, vol. I. page 4, That mere heat of itfelf is not fuch an enemy to health as is gene~ rally imagined. ‘This the troops experienced at Coxheath in the fummer of 1778, &c. Dr. Naefmith fays, he obferved the fame thing in voyages to the Eaft-Indies, which afford the faireft trials of this kind,—Dr. Lind’s Effay on Preferving the Health of Seamen, 2d edition, note to page sth. © B4 the
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