Remarks on irritative fever, commonly called the Plymouth dock-yard disease; with Mr. Dryden's detailed account of the fatal cases, including that of the lamented surgeon, Dr. [James] Bell / [John Butter].

  • Butter, John, 1791-1877.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Remarks on irritative fever, commonly called the Plymouth dock-yard disease; with Mr. Dryden's detailed account of the fatal cases, including that of the lamented surgeon, Dr. [James] Bell / [John Butter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The investigation was free for all; and if others wanted either the time or the inclination to prosecute it, surely it was open to a person who could command both. The present work* therefore, must be considered as an honest endeavour to explain the nature of a disease, which seems not to have been sufficiently con¬ templated by the Profession, and to elicit fuller reports respecting it. The course pursued has been to get the clearest facts, to draw the most obvious and inevitable conclusions, to consider well the relation of cause and effect, and ultimately to recommend that treatment, which the con¬ sideration of the past, and the importance of future experience, seemed to justify : Prceterita discere, prcesenlia nosccrey fu tura proodicare, oporteL* I hope, therefore, that the following pages will prove interesting to Medical Men, and satisfactory to the Public at large. * Hippocrates Epidem. lib. 1. tom. 9.