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Excerpt from A Treatise on Malignant Fever and Vomito Priesto
Dr. Robert Jackson is of opinion The yellow fever may in many respects be Similar to the remitting fever of Ja maica, but it possesses some characteristic symptoms of its own different from every other disease and that it may be distinguished with certainty from the autumnal fevers of aguish countries, or from the endemic remitting fever of Jamaica, from the first hour of its Not being practically conversant with the remittent of aguish countries, I am not qualified from experience to decide upon the simi larity or dissimilarity respecting the destructive characters of the two diseases. From the history of the yellow fever, and its course in the cases that have come under my obser vation, I esteem it to be a disease sui generis. Because there is an apparent affinity in the symptoms of the two diseases, it does not follow that they are identical.
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