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Medical, geographical, and agricultural report of a committee appointed by the Madras Government to inquire into the causes of the epidemic fever which prevailed in the provinces of Coimbatore, Madura, Dindigul, and Tinnivelly, during the years 1809, 1810 and 1811: of which Dr. W. Ainslie was president; Mr. A. Smith, second member; Dr. M. Christy, third member.

Madras (India : Presidency). Medical Committee to Inquire into the Causes of the Epidemic Fever.

Date:: 1816

Credit: Medical, geographical, and agricultural report of a committee appointed by the Madras Government to inquire into the causes of the epidemic fever which prevailed in the provinces of Coimbatore, Madura, Dindigul, and Tinnivelly, during the years 1809, 1810 and 1811: of which Dr. W. Ainslie was president; Mr. A. Smith, second member; Dr. M. Christy, third member. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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rences impress us with doubts on this point—doubts still more strongly felt, from a further knowledge of opposite opinions and conclusions, which we_ shall here mention. The excellent Dr. James Clarke’, long a most accurate observer in the West Indies, says, that he ascribes those periodical] returns of intermittent fever rather to a certain habit contracted in the constitution, than to any influence of the moon on the body. On the other hand, Mr. Hastie, in a letter addressed to the President of this Committee, has these words: —‘‘ About two days before « the change of the moon took place last ‘‘ month at Dindigul, relapses of fever were ‘“‘ frequent amongst the convalescents.”’ But then, again, in a communication which the President of the Commitee re- ceived some years ago from Mr. Currie, a young man of great medical research, and (1) See his Treatise on the Yellow Fever of Dominica, p. 96.

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