A practical treatise on the most common diseases of the south : exhibiting their peculiar nature, and the corresponding adaptation of treatment : to which is added an appendix, containing some miscellaneous matter, also a glossary explaining the meaning of the technicalities, or medical phrases, used in this work / by Thompson McGown.

  • McGown, Thompson.
Date:
1849
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Credit: A practical treatise on the most common diseases of the south : exhibiting their peculiar nature, and the corresponding adaptation of treatment : to which is added an appendix, containing some miscellaneous matter, also a glossary explaining the meaning of the technicalities, or medical phrases, used in this work / by Thompson McGown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obtained its greatest prevalence in October. The cases in August and September were generally of short du- ration, and easily controlled with purgatives and qui- nine. I believe the severer forms of malarious fever prevailed as an endemico-epidemic in some portions of North Mississippi, in the summer and autumn of 1842, and again in 1843; and I believe in the same seasons, and with considerable malignity, in the south-western portion of Alabama. It is said there is more sickness at Tuscumbia, Ala., this season—autumn of 1848—than has been for many years. The different forms of malarious disease, as is usual in this valley, were the forms of disease that prevailed; some of fatal congestive form. I may here remark, that in the Tennessee river valley, and more particularly on the south side, from Gunter's Landing in North Alabama, Jo Tuscumbia, including Decatur and Courtland, there is more or less of the three principal forms of malarious fever every summer and autumn; and, indeed, some have ague and fever all winter. Previous to the 10th of Sep- tember, the quotidian is, perhaps, the most common form; after this, it is apt to assume more or less the tertian, double tertian, irregular, remittent, or what some call the continued form,—perhaps improperly,—and an occa- sional case of the congestive form. Perhaps I have already been more tedious than neces- sary in noticing the prevale?ice of malarious fever in dif- ferent localities, and at different times. This part of the subject might be extended to almost an indefinite length, as before remarked, without corresponding practical ad- vantage. I will close this part of the subject, therefore, by a few tabular statements and remarks. Fever Statistics, showing the relative proportion of the different forms of malarious and other fevers admitted into the New Orleans Charity Hospital, during a period