A historical and physical sketch of a malignant epidemick, prevalent in Maryland, and some other states, within the last few years : with a brief notice of some opinions which have been published on its nature and treatment.

  • Wright, Thomas H., -1856?
Date:
1815
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Credit: A historical and physical sketch of a malignant epidemick, prevalent in Maryland, and some other states, within the last few years : with a brief notice of some opinions which have been published on its nature and treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to have selected villages and towns as the chief theatres of operation. But we are not informed whether those towns occupied an elevated or level site; whether near to, or re- mote from, mountains, rivers, creeks, swamps, &c. We are left in equal ignorance as to the temperature, dryness, or humidity of the air during the periods of its prevalence. In 1807 (the spring I believe, but we are not distinctly informed) the physicians of Connecticut, were called upon to resist this formidable assailant. Its inroad upon that state appears to have been at many and dis- tant points, about the same period. Here too the towns and villages, were the principal sufferers. The noxious agent seems to have directed its force where its victims could be most readily multiplied.* We should infer from the alarm communi- cated to the Connecticut physicians by the symptoms and consequences of the disease, and the incertitude they avowed as to the proper weapons to be wielded against the invader, that they had acquired but partial information of its previous existence in Mas- sachusetts, of its character, or correct treat- ment. Its diffusion appears to have been more considerable in Connecticut, than it had been in Massachusetts. The medical histo- * This docs not appear to have been the fact in relation to cities, or the most populous towns.