On the Microbian Doctrine of Yellow Fever
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among the naval forces of Port Boyal, Jamaica, this pestilence has ceased to be the scourge it was when Lind wrote: " It is reputed that in the early part of the eighteenth century this island (Jamaica) buried to the amount of the whole number of its white inhabitants once in five years." The writer had an opportunity of studying the disease clinically in 1882, during an outbreak of yellow fever at Port Royal among the naval community. Since then he has devoted some time to the study of its literature, and, in submitting to this learned Society the following risumi of Professor Freire's researches on the " Doctrine microbienne de la
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