Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm : as a remedy in fever and other diseases, whether applied to the surface of the body, or used internally / by James Currie.

Currie, James, 1756-1805.

Date:: 1805

Credit: Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm : as a remedy in fever and other diseases, whether applied to the surface of the body, or used internally / by James Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$2/1 By others it is contended that the fever had its (Origin in imported contagion ; that it was no other tthan the fever which made its appearance at Cadiz, tin August, 1800, and spread to Malaga, Seville, 'Xeres, and the surrounding country, where it was fsaid to have carried off 100,000 persons. The con- itagion seemed never since that time to have been \wholly extinct. The fever is said to have re-ap- ipeared with great violence at Malaga, in August, ;1803, when the Spanish government, to prevent its jspreading, established a cordon of troops round tthe town, which on this occasion is supposed to lhave lost 17,000 souls. In August, } 804, it appeared again at Malaga, m month previous to the epidemic's breaking out at ^Gibraltar. The inhabitants of Malaga fled on this roccasion on the first alarm, (probably to avoid being (Confined by a cordon of troops as before) to all tthe towns along the coast from Cadiz to Cartha- igena, carrying the disease along with them; and ! hence the fever, which was more general this year !than at any former period, is supposed to have jfound its way into Gibraltar. . This representation is strengthened by the foUow- ling circumstance. In former years when the fever ]prevailed at Malaga and elsewhere, measures of iprecaution were adopted at Gibraltar to prevent iits inti'oduction there; particularly that of a qua- li'antine on all vessels from Spain, while vessels from the$