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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![fare In regard to the treatment, there does not seem to have been much diversity of opinion. 'T’o control the violence of the attack, the lan- ' cet was generally employed during the inflammatory stage. Cathar- tics and diaphoretics were almost universally prescribed. In the earlier stages, it was usual to give antimonials, and subsequently Do- ver’s powder and other stimulating diaphoretics: Anodynes, in the. form of opium and pulvis Doveri, were generally resorted to with the most happy effect,—a remedy loudly demanded by the pain and an- guish of the sufferer. 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 mortality and locality. The ratio of mortality and the relative degree of sickness in each class, are exhibited in the following table, the divisions being limited to two, the Northern, and the Middle and Southern :— 5 Annual rat.of| » ) 2 S . Co +r {<b} = . }mortality per | & S ws a i =, |1000 strength} § . | “38 5 Systems of Climate. BR Ves aj SS | aus a Bey | a) on Pee aa Ph gee |e > oom oO 8 og 8o/S8a5 A eo [58/38 | es | eee ais a |Z2|s3 mie 8s si (jl Ist Class. Coast of New England, . | 4979 | 20 15 |13,053} 2,185 e 2d “ Posts on North’n chain of Lakes,| 6377 | 13 9 7,004} 1,912 Zz ] 3d “ Posts remote from the ocean and ’ inland seas, . . . . . \ig7990 | 14 8 {39,104} 3,103 Average, \93446 | 15 | 9 |59,161| 2,660 By Ist Class. Coast from Del. Bay to Sav.| 6740 | 34 30 | 16,907; 2,890 ~ (2d Class. South-western Stations, . /11739 | 45 36 | 39,030} 3,504 Ist Class. Posts on the Lower Miss. | 3810 | 53 44, 9,669} 2,860 s 2d Class. Posts in the Pen. of Florida.} 4781 | 39 26 | 11,341} 2,461 Sou. Mid. Average, |27070 | 42 34 | 76,947) 3,080 Mean of the United States, {50516 | 30 22 {136,108} 2,882 ~ Se It thus appears that in the Northern Division, the mortality, ac- cording to the Adjutant General’s returns, is 1% per cent., and, ac- cording to the medical returns, 0% per cent.; and in the Middle and Southern Divisions, according to the former, the mean is 45, and ac-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33288379_0355.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
