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Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong ... To which is added an inquiry into the facts connected with those forms of fever attributed to malaria or marsh effluvium / By Francis Boott.

  • Francis Boott
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1833-1834
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Credit: Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong ... To which is added an inquiry into the facts connected with those forms of fever attributed to malaria or marsh effluvium / By Francis Boott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his profession, and that his constitution, though worn perhaps by time, was on the whole unim- paired. | It is a subject of mournful regret to me, that our suspicions of the real state of his health were not sooner roused; for, on a retrospection of his con- dition through the winter of 1828 and 1829, it is now easy to trace the unequivocal and even rapid progress of his disease. In January his cough was very troublesome ; and at times he was restless and impatient at the restraints which it imposed upon him. On the 22nd I dined at his table, where I met several of his medical friends, Mr. Langstaff, Mr. Guthrie, Dr. Lemann, and Mr. Earle. He was in good spirits, and had the day before opened his spring course of lectures. But in February he was obliged to suspend them for a short time, as the effort was too great for him. On the 15th he was prevailed upon to go into the country, and he removed with a part of his family to Sevenoaks in Kent. The beneficial effect of a change of scene, and of a complete abstraction from the labours and anxieties of his profession was immediate. His cough almost entirely left him, and he got refresh- ing sleep. He drove out in his carriage a great part of every day; visited Tunbridge Wells, and was cheered with the appearances of the country in that beautiful neighbourhood, even at this early period of the year. But his mind could not long be diverted from his duties, and on the 2] st he returned to town. He was in high spirits when I ealled upon him in the evening, and expressed a ready confidence of his health being fully restored