Excerpt from Paper on the Prevention and Treatment of the Disorders of the Seamen and Soldiers in Bengal: Presented to the Honourable Court of East-India Directors, in the Year 1791Page 6. Line 6. After decks, add - Little deference, how ever, lhould be paid to the tel'rimony of a fingle infiance, al though ir afforded even a more pofitive evidence than the preferrt againf'r the exifience of contagion in {hip fever. It does not feem prudent or po¿ible to (peak with much afi'urance on either fide of the duefiion. The fame faéts Will fuggel'c Oppofite conclu fions' to the-reafoning faculties of d'éifi'erent perform and cireuma fiances, which failed to afford the writer a conviction of the pre fence Of contagion, would probably furnilh other praétitioners with the firongefi po¿ible proofs of the reality Of Its exifience.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.