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 / [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 / [James Veitch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    passing unobserved] but it often arises from an injurious tendency to gene¬ ralize. Almost all the practitioners in the West-Indies, whose practice arises among the natives, adopt this opinion: and they often give bark and stimulants, to the great injury of their patients la¬ bouring under this disease. The mode of treatment adopted by Dr. Rush, in the Remittent fever, when compared with Yellow fever, complete¬ ly refutes such an opinion. (Vide Ap¬ pendix, No. 2.) The Hankey, by her log, touched at Bissao, St. Jago, Barbadoes, St. Vin¬ cent, without communicating disease. That document, as well as the short extracts from the African Memoranda, are intended to exhibit the varied inju¬ rious causes, acting on the constitutions of the Colonists; and, when those are duly weighed, I humbly think, they will be found adequate to produce the dis-
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