after its arrival. The periods of the Tigris, Sca and Brazen, are not marked; but it is observed in e degree of disease was in proportion to their wan tion and cleanliness. Mr. Birnie and his fellow who escaped on board the Antelope, were seized rd the Childers, the other on board the Brazen Amilar condition. On board the Childers, eve blacks taken from shore were seized; but th o the hospital at Barbadoes did not infect an ship, when well cleaned and ventilated, wa inocuous. From all this, Mr. Birnie con the disease was endemic, but not contagious presume, that it originated with the peopl Ferguson, the type of the disease depends o nces, and is different on mountains, in vallies the beds of old rivers. This, therefore, refe s rather επιχώριος than endemic. ve, we may fairly conclude, as we venture eceding article, that confinement and wat generate a ship fever in the West India ngland, though its form may depend o er causes. Hence, in the West Indies, th ed atmosphere, whether from confinemen produce fever with a yellow skin. In othe fever may originate between the tropic n a similar form, from Bulam to the We ginate in Europe, it may be conveyed ne a new form. That such an atmospher gaols or poor-houses, prove even mo ers than to those among whom it or ch strangers cannot propagate the di confined atmosphere. Hence, that t ts, is different from that of small-po from the miasma of marshes, but the ts, particularly the yellowness of d That hence a yellow fever may i pics either by the vitiated atmospla ma of a swamp, and that the mode ill depend on the exciting cau f the fever may often be the sul between the tropics, excited by themata, may come under the a er, as far as relates to symptoms « are, however, by no means p but we think it less likely to .. as icterodes, because the ship 1 character and Me mode of ... |