The climate of the United States and its endemic influences. Based chiefly on the records of the Medical Department and Adjutant General's Office, United States Army / By Samuel Forry.
- Samuel Forry
- Date:
- 1842
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The climate of the United States and its endemic influences. Based chiefly on the records of the Medical Department and Adjutant General's Office, United States Army / By Samuel Forry. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![‘D.—MALIGNANT OR EPIDEMIC CHOLERA. An account of its progress through the United States, chiefly so far as the Ar- my is concerned.—Its mortality compared with the statistics of troops in’ other countries.—Causes by which it was influenced in the United States. 316 E.—INEBRIETY. The abuse of intoxicating drinks, as regards their influence in the causation of disease, considered.—To suppress the evil of intemperance among sol- diers, the abolishment of the issue of spirits as a part of their ration, essen- tially necessary.—Pathological effects of ebriety. : ; ’ , . Wga6 F.—HEMERALOPIA OR NIGHT BLINDNESS. Little known in the United States with the exception of the most northern and southern parts.—Treatment uncertain. ea : : ; . 329 G.—SCORBUTUS. Little known, at the present day, in the United States.—Until 1796, the uni- versal scourge of the sea.—Land-scurvy equally destructive.—Detailed account of a scorbutic endemic, in 1820, at Council Bluffs, near the junc- tion of the Platte and Missouri, and at Fort Snelling, at the confluence of the St. Peter’s and Mississippi. : P ; : ’ 4 : a H.—COLICA SATURNINA. . Of seldom occurrence.—Its mode of introduction into the human system. —De- tails in reference to Forts Delaware and Monroe. : y ; ; . 384i ; I.—DENGUE. The history of its progress.—Its appearance at Pensacola described.—Its semei- ology, pathology, etiology, prognosis, and treatment. . ° : ; 343 K.—MORBILITY AND MORTALITY. Table exhibiting the mortality of the United States Army for the period of ten years.—Laws of morbility and mortality in the United States.—Compared with the results obtained in other countries.—The profession of arms during peace involves no greater risk of life than civil pursuits —The fact that the positions occupied by each regiment illustrates the relation between mortali- ty and locality. : i ‘ ; 347 SECTION III.— ENDEMIC INFLUENCES IN GENERAL. A correct knowledge of endemic diseases, a desideratum in our professional literature.—As endemic influences are dependent on a multiplicity of diversified causes, the effects are correspondently modified.—Physical circumstances modify the human frame.—The animal economy injuriously impressed by unaccustomed endemic influences.—Climate so modifies the human frame as to become assimilated to its endemic agents.—Chief sources and effects of endemial influences as manifested in the production of pulmonary and mala- rial diseases.—The unequal prevalence of malarial diseases under the same atmospheric laws, attributable to geological formation and the nature of soil. —lIn the marshy districts of our southern low-lands, the physical and mental constitution suffers great deterioration, and the mean duration of life is short- ened.—In these localities, the population is only temporarily diminished, the void being filled up by a greater annual average of marriages and consequent- ly of births, as well as by an influx of strangers.—The relative influence of the seasons in regard to mortality ——Bronchocele, nyctalopia, scorbutus, milk-sickness, ete.—The modus operandi of endemic influences on the ani- mal economy.—The mode of preventing their production and of counteract- ing their effects.—The removal of troops but a short distance from the local- ity in which an endemico-epidemic is manifested, often causes its sudden cessation.—Influence of the progress of civilization on mortality. ] . 354 Note in regard to Intermittent l‘ever in New England. ; ; : ; 379 Explanation of Plates. , pulp : ; | . 380 Errata. : J ‘ : s t : : : ; - ; . 381](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33288379_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
