An essay on diseases incidental to Europeans in hot climates : with the method of preventing their fatal consequences. To which is added, an appendix, concerning intermittent fevers; and a simple and easy way to render sea water fresh, and to prevent a scarcity of provisions in long voyages at sea. / by James Lind.

  • James Lind
Date:
1808
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Credit: An essay on diseases incidental to Europeans in hot climates : with the method of preventing their fatal consequences. To which is added, an appendix, concerning intermittent fevers; and a simple and easy way to render sea water fresh, and to prevent a scarcity of provisions in long voyages at sea. / by James Lind. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and stomach, follow these symptoms, and are accompanied with a vomiting at first of green offensive bile, and afterwards of black dissolved blood, resembling the grounds of coffee, which is succeeded by bleeding at different parts of the body, a phrensy, an universal gangrene, and death. Instead of giving a particular descrip- tion of this fever, we shall refer to the ac- counts already given of it in several parts of this work, and to those of Dr. Robert- son, Dr. Lind of Windsor, and Dr. llouppe* ; where the appearances of this fever are described as it occurs on the coast of Guinea, in the East Indies, and in the West. We will farther subjoin an ori- ginal account of the yellow fever, drawn up by Dr. Bruce, a native of Barbadoes, and a physician who long practised in that island-]-. * SeeCliap. J. Sect! II. Chap. III. Sect. II. Cliap. IV. Sect. II. of Part I. * Account of the yellow fever, by Dr. Bruce, Fcbris putrida, apud Nosrtrates dicta flava, qupniara pleruinque, sub finerq morbi, cutis tlave- dinc suffunditur? ab Ilispauis Vomino preto3 eta T 3