Observations on the diseases which appeared in the Army on St. Lucia, in 1778 and 1779. To which are prefixed, remarks calculated to assist in ascertaining the causes, and in explaining the treatment, of those diseases. With an appendix, containing a short address to military gentleman on the means of preserving health in the West-Indies / [John Rollo].

  • Rollo, John, -1809
Date:
1781
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Credit: Observations on the diseases which appeared in the Army on St. Lucia, in 1778 and 1779. To which are prefixed, remarks calculated to assist in ascertaining the causes, and in explaining the treatment, of those diseases. With an appendix, containing a short address to military gentleman on the means of preserving health in the West-Indies / [John Rollo]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    we have pointed out, may be reduced to, 1. PECTORAL COMPLAINTS, 2. HYPOCHONDRIAC AFFECTION, © 3. ABDOMINAL SWELLINGS, 4. EDEMATOUS SWELLINGS IN THE LOWER EXTREMITIES, 5.4 WEAK STATE OFTHE 8T0- MACH, WITH FLATULENCE, 6. COSTIVENESS, | 4. DIARRHEA, Thefe complaints were generally in patients whofe difeafe had been of a long continuance, as in the fever which ran to the fourteenth or twentieth day : they were likewife the followers of a te- _dious intermittent. As thefe fymptoms often appeared diftin€ét, we fthall con. fider each of them. Sometimes, however, two or three of them were feen together : for example, the weak ftate of the fto.. mach and bowels, the hypochondriac