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Excerpt from Outline of Investigations Into the Nature, Causes and Prevention of Endemic and Epidemic Diseases, and More Especially Malarial Fever, During a Period of Thirty Years: With a Claim to Priority in the Determination of the Chemical and Microscopical Characters and Changes of the Blood in the Various Forms of Malarial Paroxysmal Fever, and the Application of the Results of These Investigations to Medical Diagnosis
If you treat the disease for worms alone, the real disease, climate fever, will march steadily on, and you may purge the child until the last worm is evacuated, and only hasten the fatal end, because you are working in conjunction with the disease, all the tendencies of which are depressing. If, on the other hand, you administer a gentle purgative mixed with a full dose of sulphate of quinia, and follow up with gentle stimulants and sulphate of quinia, the termination of almost every case will be favor able, and that, too, in a few days. We are persuaded that strict attention to these simple rules will be the means of materially diminishing the diseases and the rate of mortality upon rice plantations.
Quinine as a Preventive of Malarial Fever.f - The following observations have lost none of their interest or value by the course of events; in fact, such inquiries are ren dered more valuable than ever by the changes wrought by the war in the labor system Of the South. The Southern States must do all in their power to promote and foster white immigration, and all facts are of interest which bear upon the health of white laborers in the cultivation of the rich swamps and rice lands, which in many places are now lying idle and rapidly reverting back to their original state. At the commence ment of the recent war I prepared and published an article in the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, entitled Sulphate of Quinia administered in small doses during health, the best means of preventing Chills and Fever, and Bilious Fever, and Congestive Fever, in those exposed to the unhealthy climate of the rich low lands and swamps of the Southern Confederacy. Owing to the state of the country at the time, this publi cation was not circulated in the manner designed. The climate of the rich, low plain, clothed with a luxuriant, sub-tropical vegetation, which forms a belt along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf Of Mexico Of varying width, from thirty to a hundred miles, and which is intersected with numerous swamps, which discharge their waters into sluggish, muddy streams, surrounded on all sides by extensive swamps and marshes, is, necessarily, hos tile to the white race. To the pestilential exhalations of stagnant swamps and rich river deposits, excited and disseminated by the burning rays of the sun in this hot climate during the summer and fall months, no process of acclimation has ever accus tomed the White man. In the early settlement of South Carolina and Georgia, the inhabitants, in most instances, resided the whole year upon their rich rice and indigo plantations. Many, however, soon fell victims to the climate or dragged out a miserable existence, with constitutions broken and rendered prematurely old by repeated attacks of climate fever. The clearing of the forests, of the swamps and rich low lands, and the consequent exposure to the sun of the vegetable matter which had been accumulat ing for ages, rendered the climate so deleterious to the white race that the planters were compelled to seek health during the summer and fall months in sea islands, or in pine barren or mountainous retreats; and with the. Most efficient precautions the mortality of these regions is far greater than in the elevated portions of the Southern States.
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