This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ...and effluvia dissipated, and places which were not visible are distinctly seen, crews which have taken in their sails to save their vessels from being wrecked, now spread them out again to dry, and all is wholesome and calm that was so lately noxious and agitated, thus convincing us "that whatever is is right;" a truth ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ...and effluvia dissipated, and places which were not visible are distinctly seen, crews which have taken in their sails to save their vessels from being wrecked, now spread them out again to dry, and all is wholesome and calm that was so lately noxious and agitated, thus convincing us "that whatever is is right;" a truth that is discoverable even in the malignity of the climate, as stimulating man to strenuous exertion in the removal of the wild exuberance of nature, which, when fully effected, will render Sierra Leone, in time to come, as wholesome and desirable a residence as it is now baneful and disagreeable. FEVER. The Acclimating Fever and Mortality, #e.--The fever is the inevitable lot sooner or later of all who remain for any time upon the coast of Africa, and to which many (particularly the whites) fall victims. It is much better to have it soon after arrival, whilst the constitution is sufficiently vigorous to struggle against its violence, the chances of recovery being decidedly in an inverse ratio as the attack is delayed. In the author's own case the fever commenced with violent pains in the head and back, and redness in the eyes; the blood assumes a high state of inflammation, until the patient is almost in a state of delirium, quickness and difficulty of breathing. The doctor is now called in, and the sufferer having been previously horror-stricken with the tales about salivation, prays the doctor not to prescribe calomel. "Oh! no," says "Signor Medico," whilst at the same time he doses you with the dreaded remedy, disguised in pills, draughts, and powders. If you are to live, the calomel continues you in a state of almost unendurable existence from fourteen to twenty-one days, when you are pronounced out of danger...
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