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170.
variety of diseases, of which Fevers, dysentery, Pheumatiem, Pulmonary and Syphilitie affections me in the
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the Chicf. proportion of 16.79 per eunt to the
In this Table, Fevers
whole number deaths
from
of Disentery
of
there
cases admitted, and the
causes are 2:46. The cases
me in the
CALLS
propation of 8.86
per cent, and the deaths 2:46. The Pulmonary
the wat
171.
fi
87
frequently, a dose of blue pill at sight, followed i
has by a purgative drought in the surning, been enfficient to remove the disease.
"In the preceding table the number of ears
Intermittent Fever
given
under the head
of
of
Caus
only shows the munter
admitted
for
niginally
that disease, whereas the total
suruber of such cases has been much greater,
fatal:
tal: they
me in the
for
The whole proportion of
proportion of 8.37 per cent, and the deaths 3.94 per cent.
to death
Aume
deaths to cases is 13.30 per cent. F. Harland "remarks that "during the past year, : especially in the last 6 months, the
mot liable to dizenze
the Liver and Spleen,
appear
Mine
organs
to have been particularly
this I have
the former. In consequence of often found Quinine perfectly useless, (and in positively injurions), in Intermittent Fever, unless preceded on accompanied by form or other, and very
IME CALCI
Mercury
in some
the disease recurring in patients admitted
other complaints, and this most frequently during the mouths of Inly, Auquet, September betober and November.
With regard
to the cause
of disease
last year in Houghtong, it is simpossible, I
that can satifae: think, to offer any single
ne
- trily account, for it, though, in my opinion, the sinusual dryness of the season had much to do with it. We know that excessive
moisture tends to produce diseases f
mucous membranes
Bowels and sunens
the
membranes generally,
H.,
especially Gysentery, Tianhora, to, and
s