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practice


of the


writer a few year ago.


|': en


a great


inner and autumn, but


prevalence of malarious fever during


cooler weather and finally fro


their


disappearance to a considerable


winter an unusually low temperature


extent.


continued for


a num-


' Qf days,


immediately after


there was a great increase


fever cases.


The effect was precisely what we have wit*


in-summer after


a prolonged


ot space to multiply cases,


hot and dry term.


which might


be done


There


to any ex-


I will only mention one striking instance,


The son of


distinguished practitioner of New


York


City, himself


a physi-


ian


, young and robust, never having suffered from any form of


satlaria, was called to Bloomingdale to assist in a surgical oper-


itmion.


On his way he was caught in a sudden cold shower, and


his. feet and legs got quite wet.


It was necessary that he should


:ait with


patient


hours, but


on his


return


home he


ged his clothes.


On the


following day he was


seized with


a chill followed by fever, and for months he suffered from inter-
mittent fever, and finally, after the failure of drugs to give per-


maaent


Converse of


relief, he went


proposition


Europe, and


is also


recovered there.


true; malarious fever will,


after the failure of


quinine and other supposed specifics against


Smiasma, yield suddenly and permanently to nervous shock


it is to this, I


think, that we


must


attribute


those


recoveries


.which take place after swallowing some huge or some


:' larly disgusting dose, as a pint of
| taken in molasses, in the virtue of


partica-


vinegar, or live earth-worms


which the vulgar


have such


licit belief, and perhaps also in part to the mental impression


ed from this confidence.


medical friend


of the writer,


having suffered more or lees for years from malarious fever,


.-~losing nearly all


SuA~S, who


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hair,


was cured


by the


told him to apply a wilted tobacco


He had never used the weed in any form,


SMhe more wilted


that day.


than


advice


eaft' over bis


and in a


the leaf, but bia old enemy


In facts the disease oommenoes


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