History of the Progress, andInquiry into the Causesof the Yellow Fever, as it Appeared in the Island of Antigua in the Year 1816

DRL MUSGRAVE ONscourges to which humanity is obnoxious.Fever and dysentery, ii their aggravated forms, seemed to have deserted the west for some less favoured region.No epidemic of any description had made its appearance for a very considerable lapse of time either among the white or coloured inhabit.ants, and Europeans were induced to flatter them- selves with as great an immunity in this, as their Own, generally accounted, more salibrious climate could possibly confer.A few spordic cases of fever were undoubtedly met with at intervals, but these were not fiatal, and, with few exceptions, easily yielded to the remedies employed for their removal.The severest instance I ever remember to have seen previously to the period I am about to notice, occurred in December 1815, in the person of the master of a vessel trading from Li- verpool.He was remarkably robust and plethoric, and the attack appeared to have been induced by great exposure to the sun in the prosecution of his duty.The brain was the organ which principally suffered: the determination of blood towards