A treatise on tropical diseases ; on military operations ; and on the climate of the West-Indies / by Benjamin Moseley.

Benjamin Moseley

Date:: 1803

Credit: A treatise on tropical diseases ; on military operations ; and on the climate of the West-Indies / by Benjamin Moseley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$\ •INDEX. '66s P. Port Louis, nearly-depopulated by the dysenterjfrom bad water 95 rregnancy, extraordinary instances thereof . loj —106 Prickly heat of llie West-Indies , . 23 26 Prince, African, at the French court . . 117, 118 Pringle oa the dysentery . . . 252 Pris cian thereon .■ , . .318 Prolific examples—See foecundity. Protestant Hospital in St. Luke's, deaths there . 624 Prussia, king of, his expedition sgainsi France in 1792 ai8 Ptolemy, his opinion of the nature of the moon and influence 579 Ptyas, a serpent, said to produce a pleasant death . 34 Puerto Rico, loss of troops there in 1597 by braekish water 95 Pulrnonic dangerous diseases not common in tropical countries 12a fuuid bilious fever, an extraordinary one in Jamaica 200—204 fiuito , ^ , . . ' <5 R. Rain, periodical in tropical countries i, 146, 153, 1^4, 162,168 the scourge of health in hot countries, its salvation in others n Rats and mice, the fibres of their livers increase with the Rattle snake . . . . 32 Reader, Mr. of Jamaica, cured of a dangerous hasmorrhage e6z Reaumur's thermometer . . 2, 62 261; Religion,, it.s political advantages in colonial reformation ' ' nj Remedies, violent ones censured . . 283, 464. Revulsion, instance of its power in the dysentery . '2^ Riiubarb, first mentioned by writers . . . River San Juan, an account of it . . 148,10 if, Riverius on the dysentery . , , 327 Rock-fort \n Jamaica . , jg^ Rome • . ^ 11 <6 67 71 '7Q ■ Rjos.s, Hercules, Esc]. his public spirit * . , > j 7> 7 >79 Rem, its destructive qualities, when drupk to excess . 96 —.— wholesome when used moderately , -97 S. San Juan expedition , . . ' river, its situation and description 148, 15a 154 ' castle taken by the expedition from Jamaica 156 — retaken by the Spaniards . i6a — officers and men lost in the expedition against it 164 ' rcflf-ctions nrlaiive to tliat expedition 168 r dreadful fate of those who went on that expe- difion . . 188, 189, (5it harrette, a disease analogous to the tetanus, where prevalent 52C S.:;>annah-la-mcr,^vcrwhdoied Uy the sea , X X Sa\oy$