A letter to the commissioners for transports, and sick and wounded seamen, on the non-contagious nature of the yellow fever : and containing hints to officers, for the prevention of this disease among seamen / by James Veitch.

  • Veitch, James, 1770?-1856.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A letter to the commissioners for transports, and sick and wounded seamen, on the non-contagious nature of the yellow fever : and containing hints to officers, for the prevention of this disease among seamen / by James Veitch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    those opposed to non-contagion, as conclusive]J,subversive of the accuracy of my opinions, . This fever, I maintain, has always been known in the West Indies, where the climate encountered susceptible constitutions; but. until the period under immediate consideration, the cases were not concentrated, and there- fore the deaths did not appear nume-- rous amidst the great mass of adven- Iturers approaching those islands. The individuals speaking generally, who fell the victims of this disease were obscure, and therefore they did not attract public notice. At the period in question, 1793, immense arma- ments military and naval were con- ducted to the West Indies; and when I think of the gallantry of the men and officers, and contrast it with their fate, which under just views pf the cause might have been in a great measure
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