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had no decired effect. Providentially

ars

there appears

is to be no reason. for- thinking that this Fever, in

any

arms, is, or. has been, either

of it's forms.

- contagious or infections, for although

it has carried off persons

circumstances, and in-

Kind

not,

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as

f

to cation.

for

as

yet

in- in all

every it has

I have observed

heard of, attacked

Medical men, or those whose duty has called them to be_

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near the sick, in an undul r proportion

So fatal a disease and

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its attendant mortality, have naturally excited the greatest alarme, and attempts have been, and are still, made to generalize and explain the causes

of it.

but_

but whatever

even

Medical Gentlemen.

may have said, or may say,

in

support of their theories - I must declare, with every deforenes

to their opinions, that I can see nothing about this Island that should engender disease, that almost all the reasons which I

have heard assigned for the fatality at some locations have been direatly refuted and contradicted illness whatever having recurred at other spots similarly Situated as to elevation, provimity

by

ho

serious

to the Sea, de., Je; and, that therefore disposed to hope

I

Ans

and believe that this season

has been one

of those occasional_

ones that

unhealthy to periodically

occur.

be said

may

all in all

tropical