A description of the jail distemper, as it appeared amongst the Spanish prisoners, at Winchester, in the year 1780; with an account of the means employed for curing that fever, and for destroying the contagion, which gave rise to it / by James Carmichael Smyth, M.D. F.R.S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to His Majesty.

  • James Carmichael Smyth
Date:
1795
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Credit: A description of the jail distemper, as it appeared amongst the Spanish prisoners, at Winchester, in the year 1780; with an account of the means employed for curing that fever, and for destroying the contagion, which gave rise to it / by James Carmichael Smyth, M.D. F.R.S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 60; ] diftemper; but, as we could not procure a fufficient quantity of frefh clothes and bed- ding, we were obliged to fupply this defect by fumigating and purifying thole which we had taken away, and delivering them again to their owners. We employed the new clothes and bed- ding for the fecond divifion, as we had done for the firfl. The third divifion of the prifoners was treated in the fame manner, and the lame means were employed for puri- fying the different prifon wards 5 the effects of which, in effacing the contagion, ap- peared directly, from the great diminution in the number of the fick *. Fearing, how- ever, that the diflemper might again break out amongft them, from fome latent feeds of contagion ftill adhering to the clothes or bedding, 1 defircd that the prifoners mould every morning be reviewed, and particularly examined reflecting their health, by their1 * Vid. Hofpital returns. Appendix.. own
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