MALARIOUS AND OTHER FEVERS IN INDIA.

Malarious Fevers and Rainfall in Rajpootana

The drying of saturated soil, and the occurrence of socalled malarious disease, have, from very early periods, been connected as cause and effect; and that invisible, imponderable, chemically unrecognizable agent we call malaria, has been supposed to be more freely evolved the greater the ground saturation. Thus drying marshes have been esteemed more unhealthy than either ground covered altoget...

On Lunar Influence over Malarious Fevers

ence over malarious fever, in the face of so much recorded negative statistical evidence. As before mentioned, I consider the disturbing agencies, which must be present, sufficient to prevent the preparation of any trustworthy statistics. For instance, people very frequently do not apply for relief for attacks of fever. Malarious fevers having once occurred in any individual, may be re-excited ...

On Cobweb as a Remedy for Malarious Fevers

wise of cobweb in the treatment of paroxysmal fevers. I therefore contribute my experience on this point. In 1859, Mr. Donaldson, of the Bengal Service, inserted a paper in the Indian Lancet, reporting very favourably of cobweb in intermittents. Wishing to try the experiment myself, I collected, when Civil Surgeon at Bhooj, a large quantity of clean cobweb, and prescribed it, as advised, in the...

Typhus Fevers in India

Malarious Fevers Attended with Indistinctness of Speech, &c.

the disease. A patient who has been suffering from remittent fever of the prevailing type, is found at one of the visits to have become quite unconscious ; he lies on his back or side, and does not by word 01* gesture show any sign of consciousness. lie cannot be roused, even though loudly addressed or roughly shaken ; the breathing is easy; the pupils perhaps somewhat sluggish, but not strikin...