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"The most prevalent diseases in
tvere.
my practice, simple and
during the past year, bitious diarrhoça, and intermittent fever, chiefly of the tertian_type, which yielded ocry speedily to mild- remedies. The number. of deaths
was about. 15 per cent of the patients
under-treatment."
Dr Gordow, staff Geiblant. Surgeons
during
whose-Beal, and-intilliqened, du of fever in the 95th Regiment,
the prevalence abjects
ever ju
of universal. itineration, kindly replies to
several queries respecting
my love
ad
follows.
that discate,
A large majority of the cases,
these nereti fatal,
Rear
canc
and
from the south.
range of the barracks.
"The discase was · first observed
May :
about the first week in
•very great,
in
-June
was not
the
but ise
or
incuase
July
the increate in the number; and severity of
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the cases was great. It continued during August
and.
sensibly decreased. during
The
about 56 hours.
September.
duration of disease
average duration
was
"Death- generally occurred about the
instances a few
but. in many
third day, hours after admission
"The
disease was
and described as
called febris
remittens,
congective and, malignant. In addition to the foregoing brief.
sesuartes, Dr. Gordon has played at my
Lervice
<-
paper, which it is hoped he will be induced to publish, containing a most interesting
and intelli
intelligent, account of this disease. I believe. I am not peculiar in considering -it nearly identical" : with the yellow fever of the West Indies, which is said never to
occur in the bacte, although
earliest name the
indeed the
: yellow fever received was "maladie de Siam . " I always held the