Note 194 — OF QUARANTINE, LAZARETTOS, AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS OF PLAGUE POLICE.
Reading edition
In the year 1817 Dr. Bancroft published a Sequel to his work, in order to shew that the Bulam Fever has no existence as a distinct or contagious disease. This malady Dr. Chisholm supposed to be a peculiar, original, and foreign pestilence, and to have been imported from Bulam, on the coast of Africa, by the ship Hankey, to the island of Grenada; an opinion which received the support of Dr. Pym.