Excerpt from Essays on Various Subjects of Medical Science, Vol. 2 On the contrary, I contend, that as the yellow fever did not simultaneously appear in different parts of the town, but successively, beginning at the water side, in the immediate Vicinity of a taint ed ship; and as in all the subsequent cases they were traced by the Board of Health to the place of its first appearance, the inference is certainly adverse to the domestic origin of the disease, and in favour of its introduction from abroad. I know not what is truth or correct reasoning, if any other deduction is admissible from the premises that have been stated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.