 | Theophilus Parvin - 1867 - 798 sider
...constantly ill of fever. The sickness was attributed to the prevalence of a cold wind in conjunction with an intensely hot sun. The men threw off their clothes, and were immediately prostrated by fever. A similar instance which comes under my notice as I write, is recorded by Viscount... | |
 | 1876 - 480 sider
...1000 were constantly ill with fever. The sickness was owing to there being always a cold wind and a hot sun. The men threw off their clothes and were immediately struck down with fever. One of the health instructions issued to the army at Ashantee, was, " Never allow the body to suffer... | |
 | 1876 - 498 sider
...1000 were constantly ill with fever. The sickness was owing to there being always a cold wind and a hot sun. The men threw off their clothes and were immediately struck down with fever. One of the health instructions issued to the army at Ashantee, was, " Never allow the body to suffer... | |
 | American Medical Association - 1866 - 738 sider
...unhealthy, and that the year before, out of three thousand soldiers employed on the road, one thousand were constantly ill with fever. He said the sickness...their clothes, and were immediately struck down with fever."1 A striking instance of a country in which every circumstance of climate, soil, and atmosphere... | |
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Previously, however, to our ascending to this undignified seat, we took tea with a lieutenant of Engineers, whose house was close by. He told me that Suram was very unhealthy, and that the year before, out of 3,000 soldiers employed on the road, 1,000... 