Volume 2

An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794 ... / [Colin Chisholm].

  • Colin Chisholm
Date:
1795
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Credit: An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794 ... / [Colin Chisholm]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ] go 4 was the firtt perfon who vifited the Han- key, after her arrival in St. George’s Bay. This perfon went on board of her in the evening after fhe anchored, and remained three days; at the end of which time he left St. George’s, and proceeded in a Drogher > - to Grenville Bay, where his fhip, the Ad- venture, lay. He was feized with the ma- lignant pettilential fever on the paflage ; and the violence of the fymptoms increafed fo rapidly, as, on the third day, to put an end. to his exiftence. The crew of the Defiance of Blythe port, near Newcattle, were the next who fuffered by vifiting this fhip : the mate, boatfwain, and four failors went on board the day after her arrival: the mate re- mained either on deck or in the cabin, but the reft went below, and ftaid all night there. All of them were immediately feized with the fever, and died in three days. The his having been lefs expofed to the virulence of the infection, he recovered. The crew dent civility or curiofity, were the next s A coating veffel. S who