A TREATISE ON THE FEVERS of JAMAICA, WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE INTERMITTING FEVER of AMERICA, AND AN APPENDIX, Containing fome Hints on the Means of preferving the HEALTH OF SOLDIERS in hot Climates. By ROBERT JACKSON, M.D. Nec mea dona tibi ftudio difpofta fideli, Intellecta prius quam fint, contempta relinquas. Lucret. lib. 1. PRINTED FOR J. MURRAY, No. 32, FLEET-STREET, M DCC XCI. A TREATISE ON THE FEVERS of JAMAICA, WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE INTERMITTING FEVER of AMERICA, AND AN APPENDIX, Containing fome Hints on the Means of preferving the By ROBERT JACKSON, M.D. Nec mea dona tibi ftudio difpofta fideli, Intelle&a prius quam fint, contempta relinquas. Lucret. lib. 1. PRINTED FOR J. MURRAY, No. 32, FLEET-STREET, M DCC XCI. PREFACE. T HE obfervations, contained in the following pages, were made during the time that I lived in Jamaica, or while I attended some part of the army in America. The materials were collected between the years 1774 and 1782; and the present performance would have been offered to the public before this time, had I fooner found leifure to attend to the business of publication. The infufficiency of Dr. Hillary's work, the most esteemed book on the diseases of the West Indies, and the only one with which I was acquainted while I remained in that country, furnished me with a motive for the undertaking; a motive, which may be thought, perhaps, no longer to exift, as two treatifes have been published lately by Dr. Hunter A 2 |