Observations on the inflammatory endemic, incidental to strangers in the West Indies from temperate climates commonly called the yellow fever ... to which is added an appendix, containing abstracts of official reports upon West India fevers / by Nodes Dickinson.
- Dickinson, Nodes, 1776-1855
- Date:
- 1819
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the inflammatory endemic, incidental to strangers in the West Indies from temperate climates commonly called the yellow fever ... to which is added an appendix, containing abstracts of official reports upon West India fevers / by Nodes Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![guished from Idiopathic Fever, whether result- ing from contagion, or from marsh effluvium.* The manuscript copy of this tract was trans- mitted to England from the West Indies in 1813. The publication has, however, been delayed until the present period, from cir- cumstances, with any account of which it would be impertinent to detain the reader ;— but it may be remarked, that as several able works upon Yellow Fever correctly appreciate the practice, in the treatment of that disease, which the writer from personal experience re- commends ; he was averse to obtrude his obser- vations merely in confirmation of the superior efficacy of this practice, having no fact of importance to adduce not previously known. * 'The writer was first led to discriminate tire Yellow Fever of strangers from the marsh endemic, by observing the great numbers who fell the victims of Yellow Fever in the year 1796, when all hut new comers (at the same time and place), enjoyed complete ex- emption ; and by having the opportunity, soon after, of contrasting the disease witli the Marsh Remittent Fever. From tliis period to 1814, his attention was particularly directed to West-India Fevers. The present Tract is the result of observations, witli which tliere ap- pears to subsist a strict analogy in tlie opinions lately published by ])r. Veitch.* * See a Letter to the Commissioners for Titmsports on Yellow Fever, by James Vcilch, M. D. 4:c. Lond. 1818. t I'he notes, cited from many valuable authorities, have been](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28268428_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
