The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-06-04
TO THE EDITOR or TIE UNION.

SiAi Pereeiying Communication Of DR.. Charles
w. DAVIS, as published In your paper, on Che sub
jet Of lhs health OF Maiamofas and the mountains
Of Mexico, hope that will Be excused by thus
adding my testimony TO that of the doctor.
AS i relates 10 the health of Matamoras, | can
not, OF my own experience, affirm, as have never
been nearer TO 1t than twelve days Journey; but as
". Davis has related, my brother, J. r. Gillian,
M. D., was . resident and practitioner Of medicine
IN that city for four or five years. and from the ac-
counts which he gave me of the health of that place
ana The surrounding country, it evidently possessed
more health than any other portion Of lhe United
STATES OF the same extent Of country. His practice
was principally confined 10 surgical operations, and
only required assistance in the year 1884, when the
Asiate cholera swept over that region.
AS for the mountains Of Mexico, Dr. Davis very
correctly reInarks: "The mountains Of Mexico are
ProVerbiay healthy; and 70 assert to the contrary
argues great and inexcusable want Of information
on the subject As, perhaps, am the only ndi.
sdual out Of Mexico who has made journey be-
tween the Cordilleras for their greater extent and
the hfst TO give information that there two in'
stead OF one OF those mountains, should claim 10
know something of the health Of those regions.
anu hrst, Mexico, generally, is not surpassed
I9r It's goodness Of health by any other country
The plains ars all healthy, bilious and intermittent
levers being unknown TO the most Of them. The
inhabitants principally come TO their end by vio-
lence, old age, and the smallpox; hence the nsces
'J VI 'oIuntcefs vuCclnatlng. IL 10 true, as have
stated IN the published journal of my travels that
Tor The hrs days journey from the gulf coast into
inc interior OF the country more siekly region il
unknown, but afterwards the country becomes per
iectiy healthy And what the more astonished me
was, that, although upon the table lands, no ANNA
could take as much exercise as TO produce perspra
uoni yet human beings, with a continued drynes,
OF surface, would have perfect health. The health
VI the Pacific coast is better than that Of the gulf
or that Of the Atlantic coast nsrth Of 1.-THE yellow
lever being unknown to It, excepting at San Bias
where Il has but seldom made It's appearance.
In my tour OF twelve months continuance in
Mexico in which twice crossed the continent, and
travelled upwards Of four thousand miles, did not
IN all that time, sleep under shelter Of any kind
more than three or four months. And thus, for one
year, was constantly exposed to the changes, and
whatever deleterlous effects the climate Of Mexico
generally, might possess; and yet ! enjoyed perec
health, not being indisposed excepting from the
suiieIings and fatigues incident to such journey,
did not, in all my journey, discover that the
health Of the mountains differed from that of tn,
plains, excepting in the region Of the Madre Monte
the Mother mountains, (of which no account has
been given but in my book,) where the inhabt
ants are generally affected with gOirs, called by the
Mexicans bauehj their health otherwise was good.
In conclusion, Mr. Editor permit me to say thn
the war spirit in Kentucky is as it should be. Vol
unteers, I'd crowds, rushing TO the standards o.
their country In such numbers as 10 supposed vii
be more than enough to all the requisition.
Yours, respectfully,
Crab Orchard, Ky, May %, 1886.