Handbook for yellow fever : describing its pathology and treatment, as observed in unintermitted practice during half a century : to which is adjoined a brief history of pestilential cholera and a method of cure, as detailed in a series of official reports made during the prevalence of the epidemic in the island of Trinidad in 1854 / by Thomas Anderson.

  • Anderson, Thomas, 1819-1874.
Date:
MDCCCLXVI [1866]
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Credit: Handbook for yellow fever : describing its pathology and treatment, as observed in unintermitted practice during half a century : to which is adjoined a brief history of pestilential cholera and a method of cure, as detailed in a series of official reports made during the prevalence of the epidemic in the island of Trinidad in 1854 / by Thomas Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    to my early friend and schoolfellow, Sir William Heidj by whose order it was bound and deposited in a public library at Malta, where he was governor at the time. Prior to the outbreak of this epidemic in December, the type of febrile disease in the island was typhoid. It is, however, to be re- marked that fever assumes more or less of that form about that time of year, especially when north winds set in early, or prevail more than usual. To this wind the old Creoles, particu- larly the French, of whom there are many here, attach an evil reputation; hence the adage, Vent du nord, vent de mort/' The first yellow fever cases that fell under my care occurred in December, 1852, on board of B.M.^.'E.EigJifyer, from St. Thomas, and ship Roger Stewart, from Demerara, both infected ports. These were cases of true vomito prieto {vide my official reports to the Honourable the Colonial Secretary). On board of these ships the disease sjjread in the persons of the seamen [vide Appendix). There is every reason to believe that yellow fever may originate in the first instance from atmospherical causes, fostered in many instances