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Excerpt from Two Papers on Fevers and Infections: Which Were Read Before the Philosophical and Medical Society, in Edinburgh
The people in the guardfhips at Spit/oeaa' were healthy, till the latter end of filly, or the beginning of 'aagafi, when a large draught of men, who arrived in tainted vefi'els from Ireland, communicated an infection/to thofe (hips, by the cloaths, and other move ables received from their tenders, T hof'e who were' on board the Salta/b were feized with a fever, which feemed nearly to refemble that jail difiemper, of which Dr. Pringle has given an excellent account, and out of her fmall complement of 120 perfons, above So were infected with 'a contagion, much more virulent and dangerous, than that in the guard-iliips, or any other veffels, daw. Ring that time at Spitbead.
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