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.

  • Forry, Samuel, 1811-1844.
Date:
1842
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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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    2d Class.—the interior posts. Medico-topographical and statistical details relative to Jefferson Barracks, Forts Gibson, Smith and Coffee, Towson, and Jesup.—General results. . . 182 III. THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE EXITED STATES. Its sub-divisions.—Topography of Florida and Louisiana 193 1st Class.—posts on the lower Mississippi. Medico-topographical and statistical details in reference to Augusta Arsenal, Forts Mitchell, Pike, Wood, St. Philip, and Jackson, and the posts at New Orleans and Baton Rouge.—General results 196 2d Class.—posts in east Florida. Medico-topographical and statistical details in reference to Forts Marion, King, Brooke, and Key West.—General remarks in regard to the temporary posts established during the pending Seminole difficulties.—General results. ■ 210 SECTION II.—GENERAL DEDUCTIONS. A.—diseases of the PULMONARY ORGANS. Object in view.—Difficulty of the subject.—Laws relative to the etiology of ca- tarrhal diseases.—Advantage of East Florida as a winter residence to the northern invalid laboring under chronic bronchitis.—Laws developed in re- gard to the etiology of pleuritis and pneumonia.—Laws in reference to the eti- ology of phthisis pulmonalis.—Laws determined in respect to pulmonary dis- eases as a class.—Phthisis prevails less in hot and very cold than in temper- ate countries.—The supposed connection between phthisis and a changeable climate, doubtful.—The influence of moisture in the production of catarrh, pleuritis, pneumonia, and phthisis, too exclusively considered.—The exciting causes of acute pulmonary diseases subordinate to the predisposition induced by the high temperature of summer contrasted with the low temperature of winter.—Explanation of the advantages derived by the pulmonary invalid from a winter residence in a warm climate.—The climatic character of East Florida considered.—Its applicability in incipient cases of pulmonary con- sumption, asthma, chronic disorders of the digestive organs, chronic rheuma- tism, etc.—Directions for the northern invalid as regards a winter resi- dence.—An analysis of the British army statistics relative to pulmonary dis- eases, with the view to confirm the laws established in the United States. . 228 e.—RHEUMATISM. Laws developed in regard to rheumatic diseases.— Comparison with the results of the British Army Statistics.—The exciting causes, viz., exposure to a cold, moist, and variable atmosphere, subordinate to the predisposition induced by the extremes of summer and winter 272 C. DISEASES OF MALARIAL ORIGIN. Difficulties inherent in the nature of the subject.—Laws developed relative to in- termittent fever.—The apparently incongruous results in regard to intermit- tent fever in the Northern Division, explained by reference to geological structure and the nature of soil.—General pathological character of inter- mittent fever in our several systems of climate.—Laws developed in regard to remittent fever.—Pathological nature of congestive, remittent, and yellow fever, as modified by our systems of climate.—Laws developed relative to synochal and typhus fevers.—The character of continued fevers, comprising synocha, synochus, and typhus, as hserved in Europe and America, con- trasted—Statistical results in reference to the whole class of fevers —Laws developed in respect to the etiology of diarrhoea and dysentery, colic and spo- radic cholera, malignant cholera, dropsies, and hepatic affections.—Relative monthly mortality throughout the United States.—The opinion that catarrhal fever is dependent on malarial causes, disproved.—The essential nature of malaria investigated at length 276