Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21
Fall Fevers, and how to avoid them.

The season has when levers prevail. A te-
yer taken in the fall moreover, apt to be stub
born than one caught in the spring. Under these
circumstances few hints, without regard to autumn
al fevers, may do good.
Most fevers are the result of carelessness. OF
course speak of fever in its ordinary form, and
not of it when epidemic. The prevailing fever Of
the fall season is the intermittent, commonly known
the ague, in which the fever goes off for time,
ntermits, making way for access of cold, which,
in severe cases. rises to chill that shakes The whole
person. This fever, once taken. is frequently moi
got rid of till the following spring, and often hangs
about the victim for a longer time, continually
curing A drink of iced lemonade, a north east.
ely wind, has been known to bring back this fever,
long after the individual had supposed himself cured
of it. Not unfrequently present when least
pected nervous irrtability, slight disposition
chiIliness, and feeling of Undesirable wretched-
ness, often attend persons, who are yet unable TO
tell what is the matter with them. They really suf-
fer from intermittent fever In fact, it prevails,
der this low type, to far greater degree than is gen.
orally ina gined.
Exposure to the nj ght air at this season. sitting in
damp rooms, or remaining with wet clothes on, are
the most ordinary examples of the careessnes through
which this fever is caught. Citizens who visiting
in the country, who live in suburban cottages are
particularly liable to intermittent for they sit out in
the moon light, without lheir heads being covered,
just they would in town, and the consequence is
fit the chills Others forgetting that country houses
damper than city ones neg Gct to make fires
ing and evening, thing almost indispensable for
health for though farmers do not do this, is be.
cause they sit in their Kitchens where there are such
fires and therefore do feel the need oft Physi-
clans attribute these fevers to the miasm in the at
mosphee, caused by the decay of vegetable matter in
damp localities lntermttents always prevail most
where, after heavy rains in June and July, the
comes out hot in August and September To live
near tract of land actually buried under water is
not therefore unhealthy TO reside half
drained meadow or swamp. High lands generally,
though not invariably, are exempt. A wood or hill
shelterng house from the winds that blow from a
noxious locality frequently projects the inmates from
taking the disease.
| Care in avoiding an intermittent, is the more ne.
cessary, because the fever sometimes, though not Of
ten, runs into severe types Next danger to inter.
mittent is the remient In which the fever subsidies
for wblle but afterwards returns with its old VIC
lence. The ordinary bilious fever is of this charac
ter. The continued fevers are the most dangerous oil
all. When yellow fever prevails epidemicaly, fevers
of less virulence, and of all types rage in the same
region, attacking those who escape the pestileRce
and some physicians say that they also exist, TO
greater degree than usual for year or two preced
ing the epidemic, thus giving warning ofits approach
But this opinion is not universally held A careful
collection and analysis of facts, derived from the
late experience of New Orleans, Savannah, and Nor
folk, might however, definitely determine this ques
ton.
Exhaustion of the physical powers, either by TX
cess fatigue, protracted grief renders the ndivid
ual peculiarly liable to fall fever. The surest way
to avoid them is TO live moderately eating noursh
ing food, taking daily exercise and cultivang cheer
funess OF mind. An 'ounce of preventive,n remem
Der, is worth 'always pound of cure"
Il PhltGdeLphia Ledper.