Obsewations on the Teliow-Fe'ver. 39 



To remove all doubts on a question of such seri- 

 ous import to the safety and interest of the people of 

 this country, the College of Physicians, of this city, 

 have collected, and propose speedily to publish, con- 

 vincing proofs of "the foreign origin of the disease. 



I hope you will pardon the liberty I have taken 

 with your opinions, and, as I have your permission to 

 make such use of your letter as I may think proper, 

 I propose to offer it, and my reply, to Dr. Barton, for 

 publication, in his Medical and Physical Journal^ a 

 work, published every six months, and which must 

 necessarily enlarge the circle of useful knowledge in 

 this country. 



P. S. They who deny the yellow-fever to be con- 

 tagious, because it does not spread in the country, 

 where there is a constant circulation of fresh air, 

 might, with equal reason, deny the jail, or hospital- 

 fever, the typhus of systematic writers, to be conta- 

 gious, because it is communicated by the sick, only in 

 confined and unventilated, or unclean situations. 



The late Dr. James Lind, of Haslar hospital, the 

 celebrated author of Observations on the Diseases of 

 Seamen^ the Diseases of Europeans in Hot Climates^ 

 and on Infection, asserts, that the jail or hospital-fe- 

 ver, though frequently malignant, and highly contagi- 

 ous, on board of ships crowded with men, especially 

 when, on account of the wet weather, the hatches are 

 kept shut, was seldom communicated to the nurses 



