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Excerpt from Paper on the Prevention and Treatment of the Disorders of the Seamen and Soldiers in Bengal: Presented to the Honourable Court of East-India Directors, in the Year 1791
Page 6. Line 6. After decks, add - Little deference, how ever; lhould be paid to the tel'rimony of a fingle infiance; al though ir afforded even a more pofitive evidence than the preferrt againf'r the exifience of contagion in {hip fever. It does not feem prudent or po?ible to (peak with much afi'urance on either fide of the duefiion. The fame faéts Will fuggel'c Oppofite conclu fions' to the-reafoning faculties of d'éifi'erent perform and cireuma fiances, which failed to afford the writer a conviction of the pre fence Of contagion, would probably furnilh other praétitioners with the firongefi po?ible proofs of the reality Of Its exifience.
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