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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    North Bessarabia. Greater Wallachia, South Moldavia, and South Bessarabia, which compose the left half of the triangle, present an immense plain unrelieved by a single hill. Being unprotected on thx'ee sides, this tract lies open to the S.E. wind, and also to the blasts from the N., N.E., and E., which, in the absence of any obstacle, sweep across and over the country on the right side of the river, until they are arrested by the lofty crags of the Balkan. The right half of our triangle is fojined entirely by the province of Bulgaria, and bordered on the south by the Balkan. On the other side of this mountainous chain stretches the plateau of Roumelia southwards to the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora, and the Bosphorus, and eastwards to the Euxine between Bourgas and Constantinople. Partially open to the N.E. wind, it is chiefly exposed to the E., S.E., S., and S.W. The Danube, after having broken through the rocky barrier at the apex into a flat country, henceforth flows through a wider channel, which is studded with innumerable islands of a clayey soil covered with brushwood, reed grass, and other water plants, and swarming with musquitos. After heavy rain, but still more in spring when the enow melts away, the river overflows the islands and shallow banks, turning some parts of the country into swamps many miles in extent, which exhale a very pernicious malaria. Though neither bank is safe from this poison, yet, the left shore being so much lower and flatter, it acts with more intensity there, and renders such places as Ivalafat, East, Jslasz, Turnul, Simnitza, Giurgevo, Kiernadsy, Cshokaniest, Kallarash, Futestie, &c., very unhealthy during that season. But most dangerous in its eflfect is the malaria around Cszernawoda, Hirsova, Baba-Dagh, Matschin, Tultscha, and other places in the Dobruzia, at the eastern extremity of