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- - - - 11 a■ I I If ->’e. snj V# :fLS3HETD W TBURJ?4 ~\y \t M'JelMliVO. RV OEOHUH \Y. Wis KEUSft A* J A V ‘ifttiiu OFFICE, NEXT t)U, .5. M:SI fciMKTT'—AT 4 , nj|l'Bß D<s hb \m -!*fcß ‘AN-'NIJMr 4IK|& iti Aiiy4A,Cli.--.'WHis,h'pKiN'r. l£ft> Os hi t MAV BK ,P,XKOyTBI> TiiKaS, ACCVKAty ‘# £>is?ifcs toAAinUi f£i* *t r Q/i CutiVui £&. siiKs Poast'ilii Let(. r,f Augusta. Ct?rufeKßT,K*.q. i>f Savannah, li.voA'su tl. WiLUK,Lf.jp of Augusta. Tr.LPAia, Bcj. -ofeiftvamnth.-’ ‘ aio;. Vv MiLTasy JjftuisviUc. i',i. W. Hap-of Ogiethorpc. ] E<!. of Baiduiti. “Aybox, of Wilkes.’ LA&r.&a: Cook, Ksq. of GUVIta. M LL'Mpßrv, Eip of Oglethorpe., \VopD,iist(. of Cdcmbitt. 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®. ♦nr-MW.a-J'JMWiui- muj.V'wain ’ w,.-* I*- 1 *-—-•** —•*- Just Published, W jpar Sab at the Ihinting-Offise, lehSfe ■ vH!?, ’ A KFW FAMFHLET, l Vf,F U *4. Adskicrcn 01 Tim POTATiem JAp MIUTMIH LIFE CF Mai or-Genet'til ANDKIW JACKSON; . 4 Trice Twr.ATY Fi*-K cß,vrs icgle.-4Bu‘. Uo\van*e m;tie to thurc* ”bo way v*ho% to purchase br retaii'i g*3 ‘SZEZIFr# IFUMC TITLES, fi fc2r fiS iiie LottisvitiSf ; iiso, . BLANK i& w m y i [VOL. Jr