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From my own experience and from what I have heard from other
medical gentlemen, I Lelieve the fevers of Hongkong might be
reduced to four kinds. With some modifications, I would there-
fore propose calling them, Intermittent, Bilious Remittent,
(or marah fever), Marsh Songestive, and Ardent fever; the two
latter forms, I consider to be those which produced such rava-
ges in the Island in the years 1845 and 44 and which received
the name of ♥ Hongkong fever," It would occupy too moh of your
time for me to dwell on all these different kinds of fever at
length. I shall therefore attend more particularly to the two
latter forms which deserve our first consideration as Leing
the most fatal. of the causes of fever generally in hot climates,
and more particularly in Hongkong, there have been many theories
advanced, respecting the cause of fevers in this island. The
three kingdoms of nature, the animal, vegetable and sineral
have sach, in their turn, been represented as the cause of fever.
Some say the sole cause of fever is the gas evolved from the
granite in a state of decomposition; others that the water is
the poisonous agent, and a third party refer the cause to a
certain electric state of the clouds acting on a particular
kind of magnetic ore called ferruginous hornblend supposed to
exist in the primary strata of the Island. These theories, I
think, we mat object to, as being altogether hypothetical, and
fall back upon the original theory of miasmata for the remote
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