Volume 1

An outline of the history and cure of fever, endemic and contagious; more expressly the contagious fever of jails, ships, and hospitals; the concentrated endemic, vulgarly the yellow fever of the West Indies. To which is added, an explanation of the principles of military discipline and economy; with a scheme of medical arrangement for armies / [Robert Jackson].

  • Robert Jackson
Date:
1798
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Credit: An outline of the history and cure of fever, endemic and contagious; more expressly the contagious fever of jails, ships, and hospitals; the concentrated endemic, vulgarly the yellow fever of the West Indies. To which is added, an explanation of the principles of military discipline and economy; with a scheme of medical arrangement for armies / [Robert Jackson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE CURE OF FEVER. CHAPTER 1: A fhort Hiftory of the Origin and Progrefs of rOontaniong ja as it appeared in different Divifions of the Britifh Army, during part of the Bing 1793, the years 1794, 1795; and part of 1796. THE writer of the fulicsaide pages joke the Third Regiment of Foot, or Buff, in quality of fur- geon, in the month of November 1793. The Buff, embarked upwards of fix weeks, was then lying at | -Spithead, in the daily expe@ation of failing for the Weft Indies, on an expedition under command of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Grey. This regi- ment, like many others, had received recruits, in the courfe of the fummer, raifed on the footing of inde- pendents ; and, in a fimilar manner with others, had fuffered from fever previous to embarkation. The _ corps was originally defi gned, as has been obferved, for the fervice af the Weft Indies; but Government having thought it expedient to. ei an armament ne A
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