CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913 — Page 361

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From my own experience and from what I have heard from other

medical gentlemen, I Lelieve the fevers of Hongkong might be

reduced to four kinds. With some modifications, I would there-

fore propose calling them, Intermittent, Bilious Remittent,

(or marah fever), Marsh Songestive, and Ardent fever; the two

latter forms, I consider to be those which produced such rava-

ges in the Island in the years 1845 and 44 and which received

the name of ♥ Hongkong fever," It would occupy too moh of your

time for me to dwell on all these different kinds of fever at

length. I shall therefore attend more particularly to the two

latter forms which deserve our first consideration as Leing

the most fatal. of the causes of fever generally in hot climates,

and more particularly in Hongkong, there have been many theories

advanced, respecting the cause of fevers in this island. The

three kingdoms of nature, the animal, vegetable and sineral

have sach, in their turn, been represented as the cause of fever.

Some say the sole cause of fever is the gas evolved from the

granite in a state of decomposition; others that the water is

the poisonous agent, and a third party refer the cause to a

certain electric state of the clouds acting on a particular

kind of magnetic ore called ferruginous hornblend supposed to

exist in the primary strata of the Island. These theories, I

think, we mat object to, as being altogether hypothetical, and

fall back upon the original theory of miasmata for the remote

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