An essay on diseases incidental to Europeans in hot climates. With the method of preventing their fatal consequences ... To which is added, an appendix concerning intermittent fevers. To the whole is annexed a simple and easy way to render sea water fresh, and to prevent a scarcity of provisions in long voyages at sea / [James Lind].

  • Lind, James, 1716-1794.
Date:
1777
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Credit: An essay on diseases incidental to Europeans in hot climates. With the method of preventing their fatal consequences ... To which is added, an appendix concerning intermittent fevers. To the whole is annexed a simple and easy way to render sea water fresh, and to prevent a scarcity of provisions in long voyages at sea / [James Lind]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    European plants* But mod of the Conn- tries beyond the limits of Europe* which are frequented by Europeans* unfortu¬ nately prove very unhealthy to them. To afcertain the comparative degrees of Health* which Europeans enjoy in fuch Countries* to point out the mod effedlual Means of obviating the malignant Effects of the Climate, and to give the proper Treatment of the Difeafes, to which in each* they are mod expofed, conditute the Subject of the following Treatife. It is a Subject of high importance i let us confider the unhappy fate of the fird adventurers and difcoverers of the fouthern parts of Africa* the Portuguefe. They, in the 15th and 16th centuries* fpread their fettlements over the coad of Guinea, and a great part of India 1 where they differed more by ficknefs* than by Shipwreck, though on an unknown coad* and even more than they did* by their wars with the natives* and every other accident. In many places on the coaft of Guinea, where they were formerly fet¬ tled, we can now hardly trace any veff tige of their poderity, but fuch as are of B 2 the