Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom.
- Winterbottom, Thomas Masterman, 1765-1859.
- Date:
- 1800
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ] in January (he was delivered of a healthy but fmall child, at the full period, which fhe has fuckled for two months palt without inconve. nicnce. A 'perfon, who had long laboured under afthmatic complaints in America, but during a refidcnce of near two years in Sierra Leone had never experienced any fevere attack, bad, during the prefent month, three feveral at¬ tacks of dyfpnoea approaching to orthopnoea, but which was each time fpeedily relieved by full vomiting. There 'occurred two cafes of a periodic nervous head-ach, attended with great irritability, which were cured - by a courfe of tonic remedies, I have thus given a concife viewr of the dif- eafes that prevailed at Sierra Leone, in the courfe of one year ; and I fhall conclude it with obferving that while other countries have been gradually improving in cultivation, and thereby changing even the nature of the cli¬ mate from unhealthy to healthy ; Africa, de- prefl^d by the trade in its inhabitants, remains in the fame rude, uncultivated ftaie, in which it was centuries ago. It has proved the grave of many Europeans, but, a great or perhaps, the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30476732_0101.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
