REMARKS
ON THE
BRITISH QUARANTINE LAWS,
AND THE SO-CALLED
SANITARY LAWS OF THE CONTINENTAL
NATIONS OF EUROPE,
ESPECIALLY THOSE OF
SPAIN.
BY CHARLES MACLEAN, M. D.
KNIGHT OF THE SPANISH ORDER OF CHARLES III.; MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL ACADEMIES OF MADRID AND BARCELONA; COMMISSIONED BY THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT TO INVESTIGATE THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE FEVER OF BARCELONA, IN 1821.
"In the fourth volume, the reader will find a retraction of the author's former opinion of the Yellow-fever spreading by contagion. He begs forgiveness of the friends of science and humanity, if the publication of that opinion has had any influence in increasing the misery and mortality attendant upon that disease. Indeed such is the pain he feels, in recollecting that he ever entertained, or propagated it, that it will long, and perhaps always deprive him of the pleasure he might otherwise have derived from a review of his attempts to fulfil the public duties of his situation."
Rush's Med. Enq. and Observations, Pref.
ORIGINAL.
LONDON.
1823.
