An outline of the history and cure of fever, endemic and contagious : more expressly the contagious fevers of jails, ships, & hospitals, the concentrated endemic, vulgarly called the yellow fever of the West Indies : to which is added, an explanation of the principles of military discipline & economy, with a scheme of medical arrangement for the army : and a refuation of the strictures made by the late Dr. Currie on that part of the work which relates to the affusion of cold water on the surface / by Robert Jackson, M.D.

  • Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827.
Date:
1808
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Credit: An outline of the history and cure of fever, endemic and contagious : more expressly the contagious fevers of jails, ships, & hospitals, the concentrated endemic, vulgarly called the yellow fever of the West Indies : to which is added, an explanation of the principles of military discipline & economy, with a scheme of medical arrangement for the army : and a refuation of the strictures made by the late Dr. Currie on that part of the work which relates to the affusion of cold water on the surface / by Robert Jackson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    was however frequently turned off in the com- mencement, and, if deciiive meafures were em- ployed in time, the danger of it was little to be dreaded. The action of the caufe of fever, on board of this fhip, was irregular, and chiefly manifefted itfelf in fevere headachs, increaling and abating periodi- cally, in occafional giddinefs or faintnefs, in naufea, in ficknefs, in bad or depraved tafle of the mouth, in want of appetite, in increafe of thirft, in the appearance of a foul and flimy tongue, in diforder of the bowels, fometimes a purging like diarrhoea, fometimes coftivenefs, from feeming want of power of the inteftinal canal, in want of lleep, or in fleep difturbed by dreams of a frightful kind, with a va- riety of other complaints, influenced perhaps by the habits of the individual. The ficknefs, which prevailed among the troops aftembled at the Cove of Cork, for the reinforce- ment of St. Domingo, furnifhes an extenfive field of obfervation on the nature of the contagious fevers of armies. The operation of the caufe manifefted itfelf in a great variety of forms. It was evidently connected with fores and fpreading ulcers of the legs, and more evidently ft ill with diarrhoea, with dyfentery, or fevere gripings and bloody evacuations : the irregular forms, and {lighter degrees of fever were numerous, the violent and threatening occurred daily, and the concentrated, fufpending life, as it were by a direct operation, appeared on feveral oc- cafions. It was obferved above, that, while the