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Jow fever," nor any other malignant difeafe 

 reigns amongft us. 



Of the many hundreds now on the fick- 

 lift a very great majority are flight cafes, 

 or convalefcents from difeafes they had fuf- 

 fered upon the palfage. We have reafon to 

 believe that very few of their diforders are 

 of fatal tendency, and that a great proportion 

 of the fick will very foon be able to return, to 

 their regiments. 



While I am upon the fubjedt of ficfcnefs 

 I may remark to you that I have had my firft 

 opportunity of feeing a cafe of that deftrucTiivc 

 malady, which has lately excited fuch univer- 

 sal alarm, under the term " yellow fever,'' but, 

 perhaps, you are not prepared to hear that, 

 after a refidence of fo many weeks in the 

 Weft Indies, I have feen only a folitary 

 example of that difeafe: yet fuch is thefacT:— - 

 for, amidft all our ficknefs, and crowded hof- 

 pitals. only a fingle inftance of " yellow fever" 

 has, hitherto, occurred. I vifited this patient 

 with Dr. Jackfon, the author who has fo ably 

 written upon the difeafes of Jamaica, and ob- 

 tained his clinical remarks concerning the 



