A Description of the Jail Distemper as It Appeared Amongst the Spanish Prisoners; At Winchester, in the Year 1780. to Which Is Added, an Appendix, Containing an Account of the Experiment Made at the Desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralt
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A Description of the Jail Distemper as It Appeared Amongst the Spanish Prisoners; At Winchester, in the Year 1780. to Which Is Added, an Appendix, Containing an Account of the Experiment Made at the Desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralt

A Description of the Jail Distemper as It Appeared Amongst the Spanish Prisoners; At Winchester, in the Year 1780. to Which Is Added, an Appendix, Containing an Account of the Experiment Made at the Desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralt


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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. 1803. Excerpt: ... the air from the disagreeable effluvia, produced by so many people crowded together in a confined situation, it will be peculiarly advantageous on board of sickly ships, where the crew, their clothes, and the ship, may be fumigated at the same time without any risk from fire. December 16, 1795. On the sixteenth of December, I again visited the Union hospital ship, and found that the fumigation had been hitherto carried on regularly twice a day, and with the same evident advantages, in purifying the air of the hospital, and lessening the malignity of the disorder; so that every, nurse and attendant on the sick went now cheerfully and confidently about their duty, without the least dread or apprehension of the contagion, by which means the sick were better taken care of, and the general state of the hospital was in a much more prosperous way. It was therefore, from this time, deemed sufficient to fumigate only once a day. December 23, 1795. On visiting the Union again on the twenty-third of December, I found the carpenters employed from the dock yard, in making the alterations which I formerly proposed in a letter to Dr. CarmichaelSmyth respecting the necessaries, and which I was happy to find, the Lords of the Admiralty had ordered to be done upon his application. My proposal was to remove all the necessaries from the inside, and have them rebuilt on the outside of the ship, and by cutting down the lower edge of the same number of port-holes, to form entrances into them from the hospital, by which they would be equally easy of access to the sick, and the nuisance would be totally removed. This I was happy to find the carpenters were now executing, and I am confident it will be attended with beneficial effects, by rendering the hospital much sweeter, and con..


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150137174
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 66
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150137177
  • Publisher Date: 06 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 136 gr


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