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JACKSON, Robert. |
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AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY AND CURE OF FEVER, ENDEMIC AND CONTAGIOUS; MORE EXPRESSLY THE CONTAGIOUS FEVER OF JAILS, SHIPS AND HOSPITALS; THE CONCENTRATED EPIDEMIC, VULGARLY THE YELLOW FEVER OF THE WEST INDIES |
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To which is added, An Explanation of the Principles of Military Discipline and Economy; with a Scheme of Medical Arrangement for Armies. FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh, Mundell & Son; and for T.N.Longman, and Murray Highley, London. 1798. pp. xi, 396, (xvi - Pubs. ads., running title shaved, sometimes with loss). Contemporary mottled sheep, rebacked. Top third of f.e.p. replaced. Ex Lib. Karolinska Institute with neat signature stamp at inner edge of title page. Very occasional light browning/spotting in text. |
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* Blake p, 232, Wellcome III, p. 337. Not in Waller.
Robert Jackson (1750-1827) obtained his M.D. in Leiden. He was a notable reformer of the Army Medical service. He spent six years in the West Indies, practising surgery in Jamaica, and went through the American War of Independence. Later in his career he was appointed inspector of hospitals and went to Spain and the Levant to study yellow fever and plague.
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