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was

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opinion that, although the fever of last summer. probably endemic, it was not peculiar to this place . In illustration of this opinion, will place in juxtaposition with. a-case and

is given by Dr Gordon, a case recorded

Ropical Climates by

his remarks

in Johnson's work on c

Mr. Shields, which-occurred in Batavia, in the mouth of August 1888, together with that gentleman's remarks

Mr Shivids' statement. Dr.

7. Gordon's statement.

t- and insidious

"Never was there a dikase "The fiver was of a very

deceitful I have frequently

as this fever... malignant-

instances whire

symptom

dee n

character, ****

the

every symptoms changing for to favnable the

coas do

that I could have

almost pronounced

my

patient out of danger;

100142.

suddenly,

and without warning

either to the medical_

attendant or the patient-

when, all at once, he himself, although often

would be seized.

with visited, and apparently

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90

resttiferass, black vomiting much improved, bith in delirium, and convulsions, feeling and appearance, few hours half an hour previous

which

in, a...

would hurry him out

of existence !

"This was the

to his death, when he would suddenly

become strongly conveleed,

case with. Mr Broughton his skin- intensely hot- purser of the Daedalus and dry, the surface the Batavien assuming

who died of the Batavion

endemic at Edam-

---

d.

livid.

hue; thus the scene

hospital. On the seventh would close. !

-

day of his illness he took" "Colour - sergeant - change for the better; Staley, a stout

and everything

was

promising. The morning

before he died he

healthy young man,

was admitted on

the

morning of the 17th.

expreseed himself greatly of June, in the cold

relieved; and called for stage of intermittent

some mutton. broth

and.

Lago,

both of

fever, and in about

Lia-

hoves had

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