An enquiry into the nature, and causes of the great mortality among the troops at St. Domingo : with practical remarks on the fever of that island, and directions, for the conduct of Europeans on their first arrival in warm climates / by Hector M'Lean.

  • McLean, Hector, -1810.
Date:
1797
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Credit: An enquiry into the nature, and causes of the great mortality among the troops at St. Domingo : with practical remarks on the fever of that island, and directions, for the conduct of Europeans on their first arrival in warm climates / by Hector M'Lean. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    fudden and powerful means, all the eircumftances of the habit, and by this change, to give rife to a new train of rnovements. It ought to be ever remembered, that when we overcome any morbid addon, in the human body, or fufpend its power; . that the fyftern is immediately dif- pofed, to return to its ufual laws. So that to fufpend the adioii, of a morbid power, in the body,', is to afford the fyftern a ceffation from hoftilitics; if I may fp fpeak, and to enable it to recover it$ .ancient (conftitution. . * t > Upon the whole, I have endea-st voured to make this Enquiry as ufe- ful as polfible tp the Army, for whom alone it was written. . , 7 . •