Volume 1

Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle].

  • John Pringle
Date:
1750
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Credit: Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t 4.] dignity in the profeffion, and the authority of your own excellent writings on contagious difeafes. And I am fatisfied both from the zeal you have fhewn on all occafions for the publick fervice, and alfo from the favours I have already received from you, that if there is any thing ufeful in thefe obfervations, they cannot fail of having your protection. \ • : ■- r j THE hofpitals of ah army, when crowd¬ ed with fick, or when the diftempers are of a putrid kind ; or at any time, whert the air is confined, efpecially in hot weather, produce a fever of a malignant nature, al¬ ways accounted fatal. I have obferved the fame fort of fever to take its rife in crowded barracks, and in tranfport-fhips, when filled beyond a due number, and detained long by \ contrary winds; or when the men were kept at fea, under clofe hatches, in ftormy weather. The caufe feems plainly to arife from a corruption of the air, pent up and deprived i of its elaftic parts by the refpiration of a mul¬ titude; or more particularly vitiated with the perfpirable matter, which, as it is the mofl ) ► .»^ t.