A treatise on the influence of the moon in fevers / By Francis Balfour.

  • Balfour, Francis, -1818
Date:
1785
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Credit: A treatise on the influence of the moon in fevers / By Francis Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vation ; but whenever a number of fick are colle&ed together in one place, and a multiplicity of correfponding proofs are repeatedly prefented at the fame inftant, perfuafion follows infenfibly, and every doubt is removed. In the years 1773-4 I had for many months the charge of a regiment of Sepoys, in the province of Cooch Behar, imme¬ diately under the vaft range of mountains which feparates the northern parts of Bengal from Boutan. The diforders were chiefly fevers, or fluxes attended with fe¬ ver ; and in the fpace of the firft month above 400 men were taken ill. The great- eft part of thefe, however, got quit of the fever in the courfe of the eight days which intervened between the full and change, and, by the afliftance of medicine, were loon reduced to 70 or 80. But during the remaining months of our ftay in that country, the fick conftantly increafed near¬ ly to double this number at every full and change; falling down again as conftantly to their former ftandard, during the eight 1 days
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