Sketches of the medical topography and native diseases of the Gulf of Guinea, Western Africa / [William Freeman Daniell].

  • Daniell, William F. (William Freeman), 1818-1865.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Sketches of the medical topography and native diseases of the Gulf of Guinea, Western Africa / [William Freeman Daniell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    African fever. Circumstances always essentially modify the characters of tropical diseases. It may be also necessary to state, that although a remark- able coincidence frequently occurs in the mode of treatment between Dr. Burton and myself, yet I was thoroughly convinced, from practical expe- rience several years before the appearance of his sentiments, that the means I had adopted were the most efficacious that could be used. More recently, and since the preceding passages were written, the Medical Reports of the Niger Expedition, by Drs. M‘William and Pritchett, have been published. Although the diseases which prevail on the west coast of Africa may be considered as but few in number when placed in contrast with the more varied and comprehensive series of European mala- dies, yet they are not the less entitled to our atten- tive consideration: in point of interest there is, perhaps, no class of morbid affections to which the human frame is lable which demands greater attention, or requires a more studious investigation, than those of which I am about to treat. At present, little progress has been made in the ample field of pathological science presented by the Afri- can continent; it is only recently that the few works which profess to allude to the subject have appeared, and they, like all rudimental treatises, afford but very partial general summaries, the principal object proposed being usually little more than a meagre description of those diseases which are prevalent in our colonial settlements in the
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