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6. The Report of Dr. Burnett, late Physician to the Fleet in the Mediterranean, is next in order ; but, as this gentleman, in the last edition of his valuable work on the fever of that station, between pages 332 and 335, and between pages 467 and 471, produced lists of sixtythree* well-authenticated instances of persons who had undergone second attacks of this fever (besides a considerable number mentioned by other persons), I need not here quote from his Report. 7. Dr. M‘Arthur, late Physician to the Naval Hospital at Deal, in his Report, says of the fever under consideration, “ I have reason to conclude, from my own experience, that it rarely attacks the human frame more than once, so long as the objects of its attacks continue in the country, or do not commit irregularities. Instances, however, of persons having the fever a second time, have been under my own care; but it had invariably succeeded to protracted fits of intemperance. Also several cases occurred to me of persons who had had the Yellow Fever, and, subsequently going to Europe, were, after their return to the West Indies, attacked a
* Some of these were stated in the Official Reports of the Medical Officers at Gibraltar in 1814, and will presently be noticed.