Memoirs of West Indian fever : constituting brief notices regarding the treatment, origin, and nature of the disease commonly called yellow fever / by John Wilson.

Date:
1827
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Credit: Memoirs of West Indian fever : constituting brief notices regarding the treatment, origin, and nature of the disease commonly called yellow fever / by John Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    such an undertaking, no one man can accomplish every thing. While men of great talents are busy investigating one part of an intricate subject, in- ferior minds may perceive things in another part of it, which they had not an opportunity of seeing; and I may therefore have observed things in the manner of the disease’s operation, which had escaped others, without arrogating to myself any extraor- dinary portion of penetration or industry. No man has laboured so long, so assiduously, and successfully, as Dr. Robert Jackson, to divest West Indian fever of obscurity, to exhibit its true patho- logical aspects, and determine the appropriate me- thods of treatment. From his writings I have de- rived much benefit, have followed him whenever I clearly could, and when I have dissented, have done so reluctantly, and after much consideration; for as some one (Dr. Hector M‘Lean I think) re- marks, “it is not safe to differ from Dr. Jackson.” Yet it is mortifying to think how little his writings have been read, and how unjustly they have been appreciated. The great work on febrile diseases, which he modestly calls a sketch, never went necessa- rily to a second edition; for he informs us that it was reprinted for the purpose of enabling him to com-
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