Notes on diseases in Turkey ; and Memoir on the remittent fever of the Levant.

  • United Kingdom. Army and Ordnance Medical Department.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Notes on diseases in Turkey ; and Memoir on the remittent fever of the Levant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    'hipr'aka'theTand-'^od^'^ercu^ '^Velopment of that kind of malaria which is the chief source intermittent fever. In the Danubian provinces, on the 'Contrary, which are comprised in the triangle, as well as in {fiioumelia, there ^ist all the atmospheric and topographical 'bb'ndltions for malaria, and all the predisposing and exciting ^\i^se'si which facilitate the appearance of the disease, such ^^^feicfessive heat, a long summer, sudden succession of the '%¥a^n8 without preparatory transition, great fall of the 'f^liii^^feture in summer evenings, night dews, damp air and fdgs, rapid melting of large masses of snow containing vege- ^tkble matter, heavy showers, frequent inundations and forma- tion of swamps, shallowness of the banks of the Danube and Wih'b)f riV^ts, an extensive delta, brackish water near the sea^ ^^specially on the southern coast of Roumelia, clayey soil in 'SflR'^ province, alluvial^ 'iA'-^ second, vblcanic 'ih third '(eP^;' near Philipopolis), a great number of water plants, rank Vegetation, want of drainage and of cultivation in general, ^abundance of acidulous fruits and vegetables containing a 'large proportion of aqueous principles, and again others of k^' acrid nature, which none but natives can digest. This 'great variety of external influences, many of which co-exist ?tt one locality, brings them necessarily into contact with almost all the important organs, which, standing in close Connection with the nervous and the ganglionic centres in particular, form the channels through which these centres become pre-disposed to the action of the proximate cause of ague, viz. malaria. The chances of affection by, br escape from the disease, will therefore primarily stand in 'piroportion to the more or less vigorous resistance which the mediatorial organs can offer to those external influences. Hence when- ever, from want of caution, force of circumstances, or a naturally weak condition bf atiy of these drgans, their re-