Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-08-08

John B. pabney, Esq. Consul OF the
United States for the Azores, residing al
Fayal. ba, communicated Theodore
Dwight, Esq editor OF The New I OH
Daily Advertiser the following oinc'al
CONSTRUCTION Of the ''Algara" OF the King
of Portugal, which has been recenly pu'
in force: 81 III.
ssrhat the manifest OF the cargo, bus
of Iatiing, and custom house clearahces,
should be accompanied by certlhcale o.
their authenticity from the portuguese
consul Of the district from whence inc yes
sci shall have takea her departure; tnese
naners nust be attached together, nun,
hered and countersigned by the conSui,
co &c r., nreyent the possibility OF suosli
,ntion and the whole must be ADDRESSED
nv him (uuder coyer) to the Judge OF inc
custom house of the port to which Tue yes,
eel NAV be destined. It's provided. una
in case there being no Portuguese Go hail
in the district from whence the yesse, sha'
deoart. the papers before mentioned mas'
be dnIy authenticated by the hlgnesl on,
Ger in the Custom House Departmsn'' a"o
the fact of there being no fot'usuIG ID hv
sui 10 that district, also 81 t. r..r,,.
hin.-The non Observance VI 49, IT, ha;nr
lations will prevent any vessei ,io", , us"s
admitted to an entry III any OF TUG o'''on
houses in the Azores e p,,,,o.I
"a Decree of the Cortes OF iorlueai
nrohibits the introduction OF all sPlr'.uous,
Iionors {, urs French brandy excepted ana
no vessels having any OH board VIII be au'
mitted to an entry"
Remarks on FEVERs, called Malaria, BY
G. Broccoli, author of the Physical State =
1.-THE soil of Rome. From the Edinburgh Re.
view, No. u, for February, 1922.
Few of our general readers know that
all the fevers, properly so called, which
mysterious Nature has provided for the
partial depopulation of this globe, tor
checking. as it would appear, the too ra-
pid increase of mankind, are divided into
two classes sometimes FATHER distinguish
able by their causes than their effects
One of these appears to be produced by
certain changes in the animal economy,
which, while they derauge The subject it
self, compel ii TO generate volatile and
unknown substance, that may be commune
cate! 10 other subjects reproducing sImi'~
lar diseases ad-inttnafum. This unknown
matter is contngion and its produce are
the various contagious levers. Ihe other
class OF feveTs puts on lar greater Dr.
yersity OF aspect; but these are not Conta-
gious inasmuch as they cannot be commit
nicated from one individual to another
Numerically considered. the diseases of
this class far exceed those OF the former;
I ~, hoir OF.
fects, the ravages which they commit on
health and life surpass those OF the coDtag-
ious fevers in very great degree These
are the diseases which form he peru
liar scouree of hot climates which in
terfere with the pursuits OF commerce, and
aggravate the rsvages OF war; often also
defeating the best laid plans CT politicians
and leaders of armies.
As the invincihle exciting cause OF con-
tagious tevers is substance generated by
the human body, so, that Of the latter class
is an equally Invisible and diffusble sub
starce, produced apparently from vegeta
tine soils, under peculiar circumstances of
heat and moisture. But as this ma!terl5 not
interconmunicab bic from one person 10 aBo
Their, so, neither can II be detained aud
preserved in dead matter, as is the sub
stance that excites the ievers OF the first
class. To suffer from it, it is absolutely
necessary that the human body should be
exposed TO its influence where it is pIodu
ced nor does it appear that even III this
its natural state, il can easily be waited
very far through the atmosphere. What
ever may be the nature pfthis obscure and
Invisible material, il is the essential ,ngrs-
dent of that which the Italians call Mala-
ria beng he marsh mias,na of medical
writers.
The principal and most destructive dis
ease produced by miasna, is the rem'lent
fever OF hot climates: fever so varying
lis characters as sometimes 10 be cOninu-
Gus, at other intermittent: in which the
latter case, il uasses into the popular di-
version of Ague. OF this nature are the
we'll kno~n jungle fevers Of India, the
pestilentia disease of Batavia. The levers
of the hot and moist African shore, The iD-
digenous yellow fever OF the West Indies,
and many others known under different
names 20 physicians. which we need not
enumerate. OF similar character. but far
less severe, in ordinary seasons at least,
are the teyers OF the Don of the Crimea,
of Holland, OF Greece aud the disease OF
Italy. the malaria fever of our author.
Ifhen most virulent these have the char
acier Of remttents; when less so, they are
in,ermittents: presenting all the various
types OF that variety-quartan. tertian,
and enotidian, In colder climates; or in
situations where the miasma is generated,
either in less abundance or in a state less
concentrated possibly also from different
state oil the patients affected by il the mil,
der augues take the place Of the severe
inierm,tents, as happens in our own coun-