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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    / They defcribe -a fever highly pefti- lential, and contagious; whereas the fever of St. Domingo, never mani- fefted any fuch difpofition, i Having had'the beft opportuni- ties, during a rfefidence of nearly three years at Port-au-Prince ; ? of obferving the progrefs, and treat- , ment of the St, Domingo Remit- tent ; I thought it my duty to com- municate the'refult of my expe- rience, and the obfer'vations I made , oh the genius and type of the fe-- vei. ' It may again, be the fate of a Britifh army, to'viht this inh'ofpi- table ifland, and to fuffer from its difeafes ; it is therefore of import- ance to colled; every information,, which may enable us, to avoid them, or to combat them with more fuccefs,