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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![[ 1S° ] of fome river, or up fome fmall winding creek. The towns of the natives are ufually furrounded by trees, Szc. fnut up from re¬ ceiving the coding breeze ; a fituation pre¬ ferred by them, on account of the fecuritv it gives from fudden attacks, although its bane¬ ful effects are felt by themfelves, and proved, by the ficknefs, which every rainy feafbn pre¬ vails among them, and by the feeble emaciated bodies of their old men. That health may be retained in Africa, as well as in other parts of the w orld, when attention is paid to fituation, &c. appears proved by the inftance of Free Town. The feite of this town is fuch as to avoid the inconveniencies above mentioned, and the falutary confequences of this, have ihewn themfelves by the very trifling degree in which the ill effebis of the laft rainy feafon have been felt by the inhabitants.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30476732_0109.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
