A description of the jail distemper, as it appeared amongst the Spanish prisoners, at Winchester, in the year 1780; with an account of the means employed for curing that fever, and for destroying the contagion, which gave rise to it / by James Carmichael Smyth, M.D. F.R.S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to His Majesty.

  • Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
Date:
1795
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Credit: A description of the jail distemper, as it appeared amongst the Spanish prisoners, at Winchester, in the year 1780; with an account of the means employed for curing that fever, and for destroying the contagion, which gave rise to it / by James Carmichael Smyth, M.D. F.R.S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tering to me than honorable to him. This gentleman (the Ton of Dr. Morris, phyfi- cian to the army in America, and himfelf a phyfician to. the army) having witneffed the deftrudtive ravages of a contagious fever that broke out on board the Heffian trans- ports at the Jfle of Wight, and which af- terwards fpread amongft the troops Ration- ed in that quarter, was defirous to be in- formed of the methods I purfued, in the treatment of the Winchefter fever, and in deftroying the pefKlential contagion which occalioned it. In compliance then with - his wiflies I began to make fome abftracts from my notes on this fubjecl:, but I foon perceived that the account would be much more compleat and fatisfaclory, and that it would be attended with very little more trouble to myfelf, if I executed my ori- ginal plan. And although the doing it in this hurried manner, upon the fpur, I may fay, of the occafion, might caufe fome lit^ B 3 tie .i