A practical account of a remittent fever, frequently occurring among the troops in this climate / by Thomas Sutton.

  • Thomas Sutton
Date:
1806
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Credit: A practical account of a remittent fever, frequently occurring among the troops in this climate / by Thomas Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cleanliness were much attended to, the medical mates and hospital servants, very rarely, remained long uninfected. The disease prevails to no considerable extent, except among men in barracks, and in confined and crouded situations. It has been observed to attack great numbers of one regiment, while another, under the same external circumstances, and within the same bar¬ rack wall, has remained, for some time, free from it. This fever has not been propagated, to any con¬ siderable extent, in the neighbourhood of those regiments, which have been attacked by it. These circumstances prove, that the cause of the disease acts in a very confined sphere, and to¬ tally exclude the idea, that it is produced wholly by the qualities of the air, by the season, or any common surrounding source of unhealthiness : but the inductive proofs seem strongly to imply that its exciting cause is contagion.
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