An essay on the bilious or yellow fever of Jamaica / collected from the manuscript of a late surgeon [i.e. John Williams] by Charles Blicke.

  • Williams, John, -1750.
Date:
1772
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Credit: An essay on the bilious or yellow fever of Jamaica / collected from the manuscript of a late surgeon [i.e. John Williams] by Charles Blicke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘- • - ■ ' • - - •.j:. . ~'§!l IJfJn r Ji €1' k) i J -l \ ) ' • ** •. PREFACE. ##*‘ *■* t * ’ * * * * * * » V . J - ’■ - 11 » *$ .j : IT is fomewhat ftrange that none of our phyfical writers have yet at¬ tempted to explain the nature, and caufes of the bilious, or yellow fever of Ja¬ maica 5 efpecially as we have had phy* ficians fufficiently qualified for fuch un¬ dertaking. The tafk furely would not be unworthy of thofe ingenious gentle¬ men, whom fortune hath placed above the needfity of pra&ifing phyfic for the fake of a livelihood. To me it ap¬ pears an indifpenfible obligation on every man of genius and abilities, to commu¬ nicate fuch difeoveries, as may be ufeful to fociety; but more particularly fuch, as immediately tend to the prefervation of the lives of his fellow-creatures.