Remarks on the epidemic yellow fever, which appeared at intervals on the South Coasts of Spain, since the year 1800 ... / [Robert Jackson].

  • Robert Jackson
Date:
1821
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Credit: Remarks on the epidemic yellow fever, which appeared at intervals on the South Coasts of Spain, since the year 1800 ... / [Robert Jackson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fact before ftc reported his opinion to the public ; but, without disrespect to his character as a physi¬ cian, he appears to be like others, more prOne to believe common reports than to doubt and scruti¬ nize into complicated facts. The epidemic which occurred at Malaga in the year 1803, was supposed, as already observed, to have been introduced into the city in the person of a stranger, who was brought on shore clandestinely to the house of a man named Verduras. The stranger died; the physician who attended him died ; .the curate who buried him died; those who attended on the curate while performing the obse¬ quies also died. The whole of the Verduras family were attacked; and from the house of Verduras, the disease is said to have extended to the different parts of the city, and to have raged with Violence Until the 18th of December. The story of the importa¬ tion is almost absurd ; and even the history of the propagation is not Such as will satisfy any one, who makes use of his common sense and reason to attain a view of the truth. An epidemic of a character similar to the pre¬ ceding, made its appearance at Malaga in the year 1804. It is not pretended that this epidemic was imported from abroad. The two first subjects of the disease were observed in the month of June, in the street Pozos Dulces, in the house of Francis Melgar. In what manner it was introduced into this fahuly, and as it were ingrafted upon it, is not explained. From Pozos Dulccs, it spread slowly
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