An outline of the history and cure of fever, endemic and contagious : more expressly the contagious fevers of jails, ships, & hospitals, the concentrated endemic, vulgarly called the yellow fever of the West Indies : to which is added, an explanation of the principles of military discipline & economy, with a scheme of medical arrangement for the army : and a refuation of the strictures made by the late Dr. Currie on that part of the work which relates to the affusion of cold water on the surface / by Robert Jackson, M.D.
- Robert Jackson
- Date:
- 1808
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Credit: An outline of the history and cure of fever, endemic and contagious : more expressly the contagious fevers of jails, ships, & hospitals, the concentrated endemic, vulgarly called the yellow fever of the West Indies : to which is added, an explanation of the principles of military discipline & economy, with a scheme of medical arrangement for the army : and a refuation of the strictures made by the late Dr. Currie on that part of the work which relates to the affusion of cold water on the surface / by Robert Jackson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![four men died, befides the commanding officer. The other mips were immediately cleared of their lick, on their return to the harbour; and the fleet failed finally on the 23d of February, with better ar- rangement, and more preparation for a voyage. The palfage to the Weft Indies was a fhort one ; the wind was generally fair, the weather fine; and, unlefs in a few fhips, the licknefs did not fpread with any rapidity of progrefs, or occafion much mortality. Upon the whole, the total lofs was lefs in the great body of the fleet, which, arrived at Barbadoes on the id of April, than in thofe few fhips which purfued their courfe from the flrft de- parture, and arrived about a fortnight earlier. The fleet, which failed from the Cove of Cork on the 23d of February, anchored at Barbadoes on the 1 ft of April. A fever ftill prevailed; it was ftill of the fame kind, but it, in fome meafure, loft the power of propagation. The divifion of troops, deftined for St. Domingo, failed from Barbadoes on the 19th of April, and arrived at the Mole on the 1 ft of May. Between five and fix hundred men weVe on this occafion embarked from hofpitals, under the name of convalefcents: among thefe, relapfe was frequent; fometimes in form of fever, oftener diarrhoea or dyfentery: the duration of relapfe was generally fhort, and the power of propa- gating to nurfes and attendants was vifib]y weak- ened.—During the paifage fix men died. After ar- rival at the Mole, relapfe continued frequent through the greater part of May, but the contagion of the dif-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21060514_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
