Letters and essays on the small-pox and inoculation, the measles, the dry belly-ache, the yellow, and remitting, and intermitting fevers of the West Indies. To which are added, thoughts on the hydrocephalus internus, and observations on hydatides in the heads of cattle / By different practioners [John Quier, Thomas Fraser, John Hume, George Monro, Ambrose Dawson, Dr. Dowdeswell. Addressed (except Hume's essay) to D. Monro and editied by him].

Date:: 1778

Credit: Letters and essays on the small-pox and inoculation, the measles, the dry belly-ache, the yellow, and remitting, and intermitting fevers of the West Indies. To which are added, thoughts on the hydrocephalus internus, and observations on hydatides in the heads of cattle / By different practioners [John Quier, Thomas Fraser, John Hume, George Monro, Ambrose Dawson, Dr. Dowdeswell. Addressed (except Hume's essay) to D. Monro and editied by him]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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PREFACE. xxi in the evening bj the land-breeze ; the winds from the north are often cold, and fometimcs very ftrong, and come near to the hurricanes of the Windward ] hands ; they are oiten partial, but fometinies pretty gene¬ ral through the ifland in the winter months. The heat of Jamaica varies in dif- ferent parts of the ifland, and at dif¬ ferent fealons of the year. It is great- eft in the low, fandy grounds on the fouth ftde of the ifland, and is leaft in the mountains. The heat at Kingfton is fomewhat greater than at Spanifli Town; and, about ten miles weft of this place, in almallvale, environed by hills, it was found, at an average, to be flx or fe- ven degrees cooler than in town. The hotteft time of the year is juft before the fetting in of the au¬ tumnal rains in Auguft and Septem¬ ber. b 3 The

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