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ThE viJi&IUCAX
Z%stiiiarUt@i' ! aM ammulus es (im
LATE EPIDEMIC.
We feflrlA it'to he on? es the first duties pf
jiifnfbii'. joanrtdUt, f<* give, id thoie
n* \lieul lucubrcftipjJS winch may serve to
lhftrfc the ebafaeltbf or the ©ore of (hoses ep
aloniUa which Ikb country of*.
4ai kfipc-buL The/vebcwr rmiit r,&*. expect
mAh digeefbtoa* c/'fv.vl
‘The *ttbj ‘M i< 100 av/Yl. for *ayity; it i:;*
v of VQ> i tfe & fctesit *l of perhjipt p \n y i% oasn ml s
If it.p-'e&se Divine Pro
Tidea-re in the e*ni4* of db
*. ftliet oijrtsf the patr'ani nf t 1 r
mrwith 4,s (fcbttvipiMwr kd v-4.!’ fib
poTcbrs *m! he*|R’fttss, Tiid ivntAyi
what eenrse ;o ad'spl vv.to.vo. from I
r •£• -if oeshoahi .partis-..i of tfci
&dh*Wi(ffi may be Able jhtsee**'fftlJyvtH’ wo*
yp* a remedy, he will (heft & ,k.r 0 wietiga hie
iunigAfiOQ t the writer for haying been
tD# brtnuneutai in prek-ugia* c .lte teriSl ofj
lik #&# eat*. . ‘ ’
We itea amuse ouf readers with err.
v'nitsts of bloody bftiti.es, or >f civil coamo
i Mb? progress of of manu
tfffamm or of vlia arts $ yet health, that;
first of eorthiy blessings, has been Bjupercib j
ious!y rirgleeted, or reg trdad iai 4 thjiig oi* i
t riding courera. Whilewe Ate upon ibis |
urgeet, ii may uo( he. inaproper (AttadLeeb
that tty shores of the Mediterranean are’
Abw visited by that horrible sajtS*t<?y, the J
.l&iagUiS. Uar coin aerefe in those pwftffT
vide tud ettensive- We pity well njhlf*{
to in serious apprehend tfuis. It so kisowa
that nothing retains the seeds of this mala
dy nuro than rags, which are often import
ed into this country from that place, lor
tfbh beurfkof our pcperSmakera. W| jjktilti
licriwasl) enquire Whether tbe prevention of
this invlady is pul a subject of suftkient mag
nitude _to iiwaken ns from our lethargy*—*
‘whether the rigid enforcement el ot\r qua; *
tamjsae law* on vtsseis arriving from that
iirfhr, is rt a the peHorhiftfilao hi
‘Miiiviiii imperiously demunded-
From ’ir e TitZateoaa. j
This* auhjwet would appear at first v’ex? in ;
fitv more rdfiotis thno useful j but when it is
ronsidem! how fit ihs peculiarities and
anomalies concomitant ost ,a disease may
feud to estabii’-htLe indentiiy of its charnel-!
er, it will be found ml tube destitute of u-
S-ilily. It may a'tsii fee pf importance to the
practitioner n.poui any now raeurroncp of
tin?, disease, to be apprised of a!nom ilies
•tad the to v; hi!j they land
and thereby ssved from those perplexing
*ibnrrtissoeat which new mid singular
toppearaneec aametiijis impose upon him.
it hat been ih& practice of thedis&l
Muitors to denominate all catarrhs which i
&ave prevailed epidemically Iry one coni*]
fcftan appellation hppiying an imhnttfy 0 f
character. “ Froth upwards to.
j&ippocrate* it was known end is mentioned
rut , o t'catarrbciis frehis ejpidmica.
Since Sy .. * ham’s time it has uetu vartouc-
IV rt&nicd, but is now trenerally Renown by
tte £tf me of iudueu**.” How f*.r this msv
fee ‘iorrert and proper requires investi
jgvstiob. lu examining the history t<f epid*
•wafvratftrrhs we end a divers,i
tv both ut the synitoms nod in the methods
af cure; scarcely any two of them in ininie-1
sticeassion present % a scnferiess of
vethjUiucd in use, it is imjvprtsnt th.it they
tl,hoii|d be applied with tl;e utmost dflhrrirn
foitioß autf strictest precision ; otherwise
pracfftions and others, seeing a me
fJuod oftreatment prescribed for a disease un
4cf the usual name by which it is known,
if ill take it for thefr guide, right or wrong,
rtfnt perhaps not distover their error until
nfler the lets of several valuable lives. A
f*/?et set:rre and this want of precision !o
ir*x tit? c^^jferu*
t OTJISVI X, LE, THURS DA r, J U L T 4, 1816.
earren. , *s cf there epidemics, i\s
! Hr.-, they had vppettreU at uu
eertafi.-iaierral* in the two
huojlrr:! and City years last preceding tlx
veer {;£, os. i*r atetftge of na!y once :a thir
ty-one yesrs j tiit nulortptmtcly for oaiu
n; *ern thives ibis e\tnu does uVui Ripply, ter
ssiivenisi yefcr 17.(58■*’ ‘.fesy have ivtumed in
Fuginmr upon aa uvcragt> of ope in only a
bout si v years, uail tu this coatiiry since the
year .Ifw7 t*ir v£i£p4i : ias bets cirse ittnilfy
about bovetTveaii. It prevailed
ea in the years #37, Hi ’*%
IS-'-: and *Hi *T tbat ialhiaratio it. amy re
tufa urtde? the obsesvHtian ci onb muo,du*
riogan ordinary life iitpri t>ia ur eight times,’
which atlijidb i.ut tp axupio an opjJbituuity
to iudastry ;.nd attentive remark to make
asctiffttn obeert'ftiiaft'j ftn-i useful dvfeViacti
/- - ■ ‘’ . • _
t)’-. RtiH-i tvtaarka that a the
jClists,with llie oUsiast rapidity tbrogh a
coM(itry f ,&ud sheets the greatest number of:
pacp!,fn.ft given lima,#nv disease in tka v
w in which he ra carrobqrated by ma
ny otheir write?, fiot our iato epidfoua
was pcvul'irly sbvv :a its progress su perva
,ding the rxuutry.. la-ita marcli from the
?io;hhwar4 to the aoiithwsftit;*progress aj
oeain to have heeh e>*iy T:orr. u'iont one
hundred to two hundred aiitl V.tty miles pbr
anifuib. lu the winter of iS!3 it v.us in
FUilsdc-ipliift j a the vyibtFr of V@’.si it bad
stdvaaaid far s'*.aitl‘>vaAUy as Saiisuary,
. C. avid in the winder it pus \isu.:d most
pffi* of4 tliminw. fticoe its mvasioti of
rhis S-toft, it* ptogress from p.are to place
‘has i;*en tboftliy petutiar ( appcaiiog. iu
•pfttacr'nVi • ibo,-foods only thirty ur furry
ii\*Uut Com each other, at period* cf
f*i. r, five, six or eight weeks apart. It was
also p;vdii if ei.jui busthoxircf'mscrib
# lo ‘ittiiy of, its prevaieueej attacking ace
partieuLr teminuotiy, .rigtli| for tight or
ten weeks, and then paiscmg over a in
termediate tract ofcour/iy afid reikiugoa f
- ftp titer ufcuflissribed cuiivaatiiiiry, 2a tbvs
yray vit has been through the
; State ever sittfte early in lust
at this time it is still raging in soma noiga
fcortioods fed,(4ceut to others w here it prevai
ji<id i:” tbit.winter, and I rant wliisk it
liftd fojag.since passr-d ott’ .. .. u
j . It bWbeer, peculiar in raking with (hi
’greatest severity in the interij&i oi the,couti
| *hil&t tbevea toast baa been exempted
,or Bli ted euiapftrattveiy but little* Anil
| yet in tbe ibicuor of the state, the cast
Awaicpy nuirgxa of rivers ami
places mbit subject to Uie erdemial autum
nal biiious ievers.kuya most severe
£y fruti ibt epidemic. .
it was likewise peculiar ui its manifest
prediibetion ihf male subject* in priferyuee
to femsh g. Xbe tioh cf ft males at
tavkeSUid not perhaps pxceeiwl one ieuth
or fifteenth part j W feohx Jew who ( vi efe
attacked soen.ed to have tbews£ae
ly as violent as she Biiiee. Chiltlnn uader
four, or five years of tige were rcma.rk&bl>-
exc japteik&imaqgsi ehddren abeve that agy
tka mules iiiostgeaeraliy ftiifiered. .it was not
pi ciiliftfty fatal to the- agej nor to esieh &t
’ had n prior tendency to pulmonic flediOiiß,
bi;l on the r ,contrary some very old people
recovered wild hud the disease itwriiJj? ,
nd ? indeed, it fell with it# greatest feveri-
Uyand mortality on the robust and oh such
aa weve iq tb.) ,priae of life. Corpulent;
nrfcon# appeared to enjoy an exemption ;
aid it v*xs thought that fiuruppaos end the
natives of the Eastern States ware inucb
rry>re exempted than the natives of jboie
sooihvnj if.umdeSf females in ft slate of
were not mote liable to ibortions
Fn this disease thftO so others of tojual vio
lence, Svhith unhappily i r.ot the ease in
i epidemical eV rrh generally. A<> drunk
j arda us aftishi. havfi beta it was
generally fateX. . / ■ <■■ : A .;■•“■ .
This disease w&s peculiar p’s Itsaui^ecaal
tendency to dcterruiufe on the chest in the
form of'ftnourriunfft. For although a smalt
proportioa of cases determined to tno keath,
bl6yd vessels irnf> or throat, yet the tenden
cy to the chest was so general as almost to
warrant the flendminattVa -4 an epicen.is
pleurisy or neripneumuny rather than ol
lufiuenr*. It may also hi remarked that
reKpses were more seldom than ts ordinary
! mtiuci'its. It was peculiarly under the -
f Ihienee of tern pel atre and humility- Upon
the recurrence of cold damp weather, ot
which,we have h*d an nnusogl share this
winter, the cases iromcdistclv multiplied, &
those who Kd hecu previously ill neverdas*
led; to become worse- itwa# peruaps troni
this circumstance that it proved in many
places peculiarly fatal to negroes, us they
were more exposed to the vieiseitoties ©t the
weather and their lodging generally eold &
nnoinfortable.*-lExposure to the external
atmosphere and cold, seemed constantly to
fa Hi s** T
hips, is the leastm why females, ehildreu &
cotpuie&t paopla were more exempted iVom
it Lhaa other*, as corpulence serves as a ’
defease against the iuflueuse of cold.
la tw© anomalous eases in this tewn the .
local deterimuaiiou to iha bfa was sq g ; xj- j
dea ami violent in two robust nien aa to ©c-j
ctCniou ulstane, without any- premeraitary j
symluitt*. Both theae cases proved fatal, J
one witiiia forty eight hours end the o.bw ;
wllkij a ftnv davit. In a lad of or|sj
yeare of age, the disease was ushered ia by j
a sudtbi: aitaek of stupor. lie was travel
ling ou the road ia eoiv pany with aorna oth
ers and eutpplained ci‘ Uotbrng hefure be fell
dvv/ft ia a rials of iat,ea /ibiiAp. This case
..A pneumruic eiyse oevurred, i :
a typhu* nh{ure fteenlqaamed wub a eouga, 1
id every rebpect 1 esemhliag the Lcopiug-1
except that the scatter of expeate*-*-j
tiou was uiiCGimrieuly coccus acd ppruiert j
fiam the
:&ud tvftar & Indiana utnefi seems likely to]
recover. |a'three eases towards
the crises tbe d*****..; preea-pk.ated iip
©a/lhc extrsmeties, ‘prnducii*g :ah> .aiarmiug.
utat© at plisgßioais iuliamatiun, whieh ter
lulnatcd ia tbastitdtiujaal disease by Itah
liskitig cdpikuß aupj Hratione. In two pi‘
these it fell upon the arms, an ’ the ipilamr,-
tis sweilioga extended from
tka ilogt’t'a to tka ckcuhUrs. ‘R.a ufippara
ii oh a.took place around the ellow,, ia fco.tfc |
cases, fosming extensive ioi seel ram which |
the diael.ai’^ kept up for many weeks**-*- j
These are.both .fet*,vekg ; but tlifeatea an
auehyfusis. Tte o'xer ease fail up©a t.h,e |
leg; Bupperated copiously cv.d h duhig well.
I w*-‘i iu7ui-iaaJ by tbe pfcy-stemm bf tM*
placa oi three #Achi> ic wLicit li^ceerrharts
from mb Or both ear* oTeiirr# in vrhish ike
pitiesu jeat teithi f© to I'S'Vanee*
One of these cafxa 1 ©covered.—Tjurae r
focir cases oeriUTed ia whieh the eruption ,
af fti-ask oa the or 2d day jnd tin end In
tho dioeftKe ;; and in or © it appeared as lute
U 8 the or Jtk vvet-ii, in ttvbju’ ation with
tbe other usual symtoias aUei-uing tka..cisu
kc4im.il (0 ue hucE?.ialT’ • • / Y
, Two piiittUiOftic (fexis eceurrcd in ‘b’Meli
nncoouiiou eopioua kroiiclxii ur pu'unonary
teak place at a 2ate U'ge of ike
discset, and after llio fowliilea of the ,pa
titnU had given hopes for oevepal days of
cojjvftkfteuea. This secrefjoa occurred sud
den *yj aud the matter pf it was gipeetora
ted uy an exau-tiug parovjsm fcf coughiag.
The <pniutiiy ©Kpes.toraud at oi;& time
was slum about lour ovnee* to two pounds
io the space ©4* from fifteen minutes to (wo
hour's; In oiie us t-tese eases It reeurred
periodically with alee prepisioD, at the
same hour and almost utthfc aameminutfe iu
every H i4ur, for five times.
‘fh© matter of this sseietiop bad au inter
medlate appearauae beiwctp pus & mucus,
of a while colour with a ta-ie not easily de-
but piore neatly resembling the
tact© of a raw. tlac any thing iLe, This
secretion wai followed by evident atd im
mediate rejisf lo the ©?*est,-~ r ni9 respira
tiou heeams more free? the iunga snore easi
ly espancLd, the pains and uaea
siocis about the efiest yiere miiig&tad, and
the coovaleseeuce was visibly more .rapid
These discharges gave an'impression that
they proceeded from the rupture off vimiicif
(jr abscesses which had farmed in the lungs
But that this opinion was erroneous?.* ob
vious from the following circuit* a'anros.
The txtatier was obviously differ eat from
the matter of common abscesses,, as unex
perienced eye would readily perceive, il,
• ho wever, it had been real pus, yet lids alone
would fall very far short of being proof t hat
it proceeded from an abates® ;Tor it is ft fact
long sioee established that pits ciay be, arid
very sfien ia formed tVorn iuii&rjped aehret
jng surfaces, and the secreting surfaces, us
the brouehis most especially are liable.to
take on this kind of ceeretiou ffis 1 expector
ation pf tijia matter was moreover regularly
periodical after .certain intervals. It con
tinued at each period about the s&tSe lauglb
of time, and thep gradually but rather ab
ruptly ceased; after which not a smgis par
ticle of it could be expectorated by any et
tott of coughing, either., spontaneous r in
’tantionnl, until the next regular period ot
its recurrence. Jtfow it is obvious that i
this matter had proceeded from a ruptuui: j
ahisess, however rapid and copious the ii . ;
discharge nugb hove been, yet. a supply ui |
more or leas matter must have been e* u
fetactiy formed in it until the abscess \ a,
healed; must necessarily have bcec.broi'ghi
up f from, time to time, duringlhe iDteivols.
by coughing. To suppose Ike wntrary, <
must belipve each discharge to *•* ?■
the* consmCieuee of tbt rupture ot a ci* arret
abscess* and the saora especially as. tccl
succeeding discharge, and aven the last;
was afluahy as soploOs as the first; uud
then wf most admit the first preposterous
c fat W& %***m m* mte&w
healed npon beirg emptied. A eonclostotfd
oufortunately for the subjects of pulmoaatjE
xbscesics, eoutbary to all expeneace.
Upon the whole I conclude -hat tfcHedfflfe
] charges were die easet of bronthial & puv?
| ffionary secretion $ end (hat it was a aioib
j of evacuation atiendißg the protracted err**-
|is of the disease by whieh the lungs we r&
j unloaded of infraction*, and possibly the*
j whole system relieved of ofiowdieg matter?.*
| for ii ought to be remarked that .both thesy
I ease* had Ion? passed the usual period <f:
termiaation of the dUeast. withuot the usual
*ymioiu3|©i? eapectcratioa, &c. attending tki*,
arisis.
Ia very nany pneumonic eases f#
Tiaiaed oa the seat of tha fndamation duiinp;
vrjaie. time of convalescence, Yhjfct
| pain, from the eiraumetauces of its being *t>
j suddenly variable, Bomeftmej* LctUtr aafe.
| someuiueg worse ia the course of a few imc£
utei, and ciidom giving ny uaeaftiuess ex^*
J cept ly fen expansion of the thorax or aottw
exertion of tfe© bus selea about the part, wasv
tpost probably of & ihoumaiic mature. In*
one cas& they seeuitd to cceupy every .atre*
costal mussi©, giving cenildoralla paia up*
on every expausioa of the chest, at by dttp*
ioißpiiftftoius, &,t. hut oecasiorare little 0?
cono of Uoeaaisjwx when theae inusdes
iulaX'?d or only in their ordinary slate ofz&
artion. Although ibeea pains v. crs *svideat
fiy so&ted in, ibe iutdrcastal Bißsalcs, yet
I there wes an evident coitfiaxi n between
them ar 4 i the state of the lungs, immiitfc.
t uat- a fv w ecuvh.s and even sttuilj •spectarslp’
| tsoos would ©ctAmoa a sastig&tfaa at the 35-
] for ebsse time, . • 1 .
I ha#, given the prtceipal
iuesjaiks that. Lave attracud my
and fcfjg lc*ve to dose thft t mmunic&tiuUL
■ vith a notice of rtjsie papkW notions xviti?
regard Io the prevention &f this foimidabla
disaftsc. 1 urn that the iuh&bit*
ants of WilUxjgwburgh dftirijt, where ik
ha;2 rr.ado great ravages brlievo that the
prcg.ess of the disease Las been com pie (dtp
stored by burning their wood*, nd it
saiti that eeteral eireith'ftaccos ©iford c otm
tiiderahle groends for tiidbt opinion* I i4j|
ntea itjfouned that a gfutltfaa.o in the town
of Granby, where tie ts.orlelity has heeia
almost ttpperalleltA. had an early
to bitrciua Ur in bk Mid ‘ ft boat hi*
doors. Ins family esospetUhc disre::©. J#
nother gentifman es Catcclen, whose
w;ere situated on t'.s plantation not far from
another where the negroes expsrienredl
uncuiamon mortality, i’pea. porciiving that
ths disease had pki appeara&cain cn.
offiis kileLens. h?d. refcais®. to the seme*
expedient, apd (he diseas? progressed sit*
farther.. Ip IViiield di-Mriet a notknb?£
prevailed that iLt.x %L© were tibpMig
©ieurieg lands v. Lera great quanlilits
brush and wood Sktve beenpeeessanly bojnS
ed, have heen t x n pltd fixta thediseascL..
is it ImpcsstMe these. • imtions
have some foLvdfilit tJ is truth The pro
dnets of iheiofiihesiiop of vr.riona kinusat’
Vegetable nutter,may rimt.rir., some active
and|iotent tgHU. .1; is known ehyoiisttf
that (he con,l srtifcir cf mttal substances,
and tspoeiiiily tie rotiun s wood of
produces tßi bontif and l t-ges in very
tic* wi<h. other tjucie* oi ffifttter
tcpahU by of fotuily.cfcftnga*
log their pr ponies Is it then in-poceiliai.
thtittliie ftahsiaipt- should cunbine with th%
iateat r*i?ouj 01 :jss of the vpidemiii in the.
attnostphi t* Hid destroy itjs viroien.ee ? Oh
is it !itrj."*iisiUe (but ear’ iiietUt* hydrogen
f'.s slw lid a® ti-.fiiifjiv.e tl.o *y*tem,
as to dcttioyitA is.iseeptibiliftes ‘* the iE>
priuducs r.f-the temhie These idea*
are snootier hjpotheliu), hut perhaps.,
not ton al.-’ uj to disband sojbo
Bor (0 ftrb\ a Iba) er trauiry into ihe efi*-
fvfcteof rcmuustioo ia aruMu gor destroy
;p£t tbfs oil utvouiiog mon“ter.
* .V JAMES oa VIS. ■
Columbia, (S.C.) Apii* 5 * I*l®.
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