A Treatise on the Fevers of Jamaica, with Some Observations on the Intermitting Fever of America,

JACKSON, Robert A. A Treatise on the Fevers of Jamaica, with Some Observations on the Intermitting Fever of America, and an Appendix, Containing Some Hints on the Means of reserving the Health of Soldiers in Hot Climates. Phila.: Printed for Robert Campbell, 1795. 1st American ed. xi,276,19,[4, advertisements]pp. This book, first published in London in 1791, was a resource after the yellow fever outbreak of 1793. Jackson documents the detailed search for a cure for the deadly disease-which lasted another century. Jackson offers "Observations contained in the following pages, were made during the time that I lived in Jamaica, or while I attended some part of the army in America," between 1774 and 1782. The cures, which proved ineffective, included drenching with cold water, purging, blood letting, etc.

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First published in London in 1791, republished in Philadelphia in 1795 because the demand created by the epidemic made tropical medicine expertise valuable to American readers. Jackson's clinical reasoning is more careful than Rush's about when and how much to bleed -- his Caribbean experience had given him a more nuanced view of the disease's variable presentations -- but his general therapeutic framework supported Rush's approach and was deployed accordingly.