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... ISLAND OF ANTIGUA IN THE YEARS 1835 , 1839 , AND 1842 , WITH AN APPENDIX CONTINUING THE HISTORY TO 1853 . BY THOMAS NICHOLSON , M.D. , MEMBER OF H.M. COUNCIL AND LATE PHYSICIAN TO THE PUBLIC HOSPITAL AND LUNATIC ASYLUM , ANTIGUA . THECA ...
... ISLAND OF ANTIGUA IN THE YEARS 1835 , 1839 , AND 1842 , WITH AN APPENDIX CONTINUING THE HISTORY TO 1853 . BY THOMAS NICHOLSON , M.D. , MEMBER OF H.M. COUNCIL AND LATE PHYSICIAN TO THE PUBLIC HOSPITAL AND LUNATIC ASYLUM , ANTIGUA . THECA ...
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... island- as , for instance , in the year 1823 , a short ac- count of which , by my friend Dr. Musgrave , will be found in the twenty - eighth volume of the " Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal " for 1827 . Yet , although the ...
... island- as , for instance , in the year 1823 , a short ac- count of which , by my friend Dr. Musgrave , will be found in the twenty - eighth volume of the " Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal " for 1827 . Yet , although the ...
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... islands ; and , although convalescents were fre- quently carried into the country for change of air , the disease was not propagated in the rural districts ... island of B 2 YELLOW FEVER . 3 gentlemen under whom I served in the West ...
... islands ; and , although convalescents were fre- quently carried into the country for change of air , the disease was not propagated in the rural districts ... island of B 2 YELLOW FEVER . 3 gentlemen under whom I served in the West ...
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... island in that course ; and , strange to say , it was scarcely felt at all forty miles to the south of Antigua . Before the occurrence of the hurri- cane the inhabitants were tolerably healthy - at least they were free from any acute or ...
... island in that course ; and , strange to say , it was scarcely felt at all forty miles to the south of Antigua . Before the occurrence of the hurri- cane the inhabitants were tolerably healthy - at least they were free from any acute or ...
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... end of December had nearly disappeared . The last death occurred on the 24th of that month , in the wife of a Moravian missionary , who arrived in the island from Eng- land on the 9th , and was attacked on the 6 AN ESSAY ON.
... end of December had nearly disappeared . The last death occurred on the 24th of that month , in the wife of a Moravian missionary , who arrived in the island from Eng- land on the 9th , and was attacked on the 6 AN ESSAY ON.
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