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recupation and secue was

always the most

difficult to determine the

Me.

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167. While I was in attendanen upon

upon

that institution,

the malarial

influence

ww

the

is great

effectual. remedy. It was sometimes excedingly

precise type of

dicens, the sucdical attendant being often puzzled whether to designate it. Pamittent

or intermittent Fever.

The Civil Officers of Gremment.

have almost without

ill

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one

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exception, suffered; degree. Those whore

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occupation expores been chiefly the sufferers from periodical returns after the first attack of Fere, which have proved most harassing to them in the exercise of their duties. There has, evidently, been a specific atmospherical influence

· creating this endemie during

part year, and it has operated most in the most tranquil states of the atrusphere. It Harland, of the Seaman's Hospital, who has been a great sufferer from Fever,

them to the Climate have

from the short

was a

the

absent

for

several

weeks, during which time his duties devolved

that not a single patient cecaped

An

attack of Intermittent. Fever, no matter what the

of

disease was

for which he

servants, without me and Increz

left

was admitted. Th

exception, became affected,

ска

the Amrital after an crening

visit without feeling slight symptoms of aque

myself. That this tranquil state of atmosphere should be

gases

unsafe

the

one is little to be wondered at when we consider the more mechanical admixture of its constituents, and their readiness, while inactive, to enter into dangerous compounds with the adventitions

evolved from decaying regetable matter which they may have a chemical affinity for. Of the sporadic discares prevalent, I have little to say. Many of them sequelae of fever. Of Pulmonary affections, Haemoptysis, resulting from congection of the Lunge, or subuente inflammation of the

ivere

the