On an Indian Remedy for Small-Pox
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Eakly in the last winter a small coasting vessel landed a portion of her crew at an extreme sea-board village, a few miles from Halifax. The persons landed were sick of small-pox, and the disease soon spread, first amongst the cottagers with whom the fishermen mixed, and subsequently amongst those from the capital who resorted to the village for the purposes of trade. Through the early weeks of spring, rumour constantly asserted that vast numbers of the seafaring population were attacked with the complaint; but it was not until early in March that the large civil hospital of Halifax, by the number of its weekly admissions for variola, began to corroborate rumour, and to authenticate the justice of the public anxiety. The disease in process of time extended to the troops in the garrison ; but the proportion of attacks to those among the civil population was singularly small. While certain portions of the inhabitants of Halifax were suffering from the epidemic, alarming accounts reached that place relative to the terrible ravages of the scourge amongst the Indians and coloured people generally. Variola is the special plague amongst the Indians ; and when they are invaded by this pestilence it sweeps them off by scores. Like the fire of the prairies, it passes over their encamping grounds, destroying all of humankind in its path. On this occasion, the most painful details were given of whole families being carried off by this loathsome disease. After
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