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opinion that, although the fever of last summer.

• probably endemie, it was not peculiar to this place . In illustration of this opinion, I

- will place in juxtaposition with a case, and

his remarks given by Dr. Gordon,

in

Johnson's

work

C

a-case recouted.

Tropical Climates

by

Mr. Shields, which-occurred in Batavia, in

1800,

together.

with

the mouth of August that gentleman's remarks

Mr Shields" statement. Dr. Gordon's statement.

"Never was there a dikase

"The fever

Aval

• of a very

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I

and insidious

character, ****

deceitful as this fever. malignant- I have frequently sun instances where every

symptom

was to

the

symptoms changing for

favorable the

that I could have

almost pronounced. my

patient out of danger;

when, all at once, he

would be seized-

sorte. Luc

suddenly,

and wiltiont, warning

either to the medical_

attendants or

the patient.

himself, although often

with visited, and apparently

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restlessness, black vomiting, much-improved, both in delirium, and convulsions, feeling and appearance,

which in a

few hours

half an hour previous

would hurry him out to his death, when he

would suddenly

of existence !

This was the

become strongly converted,

case with. Mr Broughton, his skin- intensely

purser of the Daedalus and

who died of the Batavian

endemic at Edam-

hot

and dry.

the surface

assuming

livida

hue; thus the scene

hospital. On the seventh would close. !

day of his illness he took "Colour - sergeant

it

change for the better; Staley, a stout-

and

uad

everything promising. The morning

before he died he

healthy young man,

was admitted on

the

morning of the 17

th

expressed. 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 gone

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