A dissertation on the means of preserving health in Charleston, and the adjacent low country. Read before the Medical Society of South-Carolina, on the 29th of May, 1790 / By David Ramsay, M. D.
- David Ramsay
- Date:
- 1790
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dissertation on the means of preserving health in Charleston, and the adjacent low country. Read before the Medical Society of South-Carolina, on the 29th of May, 1790 / By David Ramsay, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![In enumerating what ought to be done to pre- ferve health, the advantages of temperance and exercife are obvious; but ixftead of dilating on principles fuited to every firuation, it will be more proper to dwell on fuch as efpecially apply to our own. For eight months of the year, South-Caros lina is as healthy as any part of the globe. Our winters are delightful, and our greateft fummer heats are far from being intolerably diftreffing. he mercury in the thermometer rifes every year as high in Bofton, New: York and Philadelphia, as in Charieflon. I have lived in both of the latter cities, and can with truth declare, that I have fuf- fered more from heat, in each of them, than I ever did in Charlefton. _ If our fummers are longer, and rencer us.lefs able to bear continued fatigue, this is amply compenfated by the fuperior mildnefs of our winters and the fuperior fertility of our foil, which requires iefs labor for procuring fubfifence, The inhabitants of this ftate are in general, at al] times, lefs lable to rheumatifins, coughs, colds, and in. flammatory diforders, than thofe who live in colder climates. Confumptions, except a few from ca. tarrh, are feldom feen amoneft our own citizens, Gravel and ftone are comparatively rare in this country. But to fevers ef the low kiad, we are particularly expofed, efpecially’ in the interval between June and November. As thef may be confidered to be the endemic of the country, I beg leave to offer fome practical obfervations on the means of preventing them. Our fummer and autumnal fevers, as far as they depend on local | - fiiuation,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32886500_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
