Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-10-17
LOCAL. NEWS.
!. ',n,,Ht ll EVENING, OCTOBER It.

visitant OF uueWalSl.4 ' IL Sini"' .hoosn ny IL
.,ooans confined to that region, the above is 9
,,onroe almost as feryenty hated, if not SO
much dreaded as the famous yellow jack Of
.ho GnH States. There are few perhaps east
If the Blue Ridge who have not at one time or
another felt its influence: aud shiYerei, if not
NTH fear, at its approach, at least in its chilly
embrace. And few who have once felt the
.,apue'' but will readily recognize these. follow
inc symptoms Rising in the morning with &C
icnstomed health, hreakiasting with. good appe-
ITO and commencing the daily avocation with
ns,al energy the victim in short tiu'e feels
canoe of WEAKNESS come on-he yawnS ls
thirsty. and chilly. If he is uracquainted
9th the foe who so sttalthiy grapples with
him. he is perhaps at loss to know what is
tho matter. His nails turn blue, and he SHY
sor, again he puts on his coat, his ovcrcoat,
Int a sensation as OF a cold stream Of water
,oo,ing down between bis shoulder blades. rap
;a]v increasing until it acquires the dimensions
ond communicates the feelings of an imaginary
bIock of ice-comes on apace; the patient
coes TO bed shivering and shaking violently,
With an indispensable pain in his head, and in
the ''suall OF his back, " and with feeling all
over of utter misery, he realizes what the
ssague'' is. Blankets, hot tricks, brandy, are
successivcly and jointly tried, but the cold Stage
will have its way in triumph, to be followed
within few hours by the fever. Then the poor
snfferer ia as hot as he was previously cold, the
ss;mulants taken to drive off the chill seeming
to add their heat foree to the fever, which
gradually su' siding, passes entirely away, leav-
pg the sufferer woe begone, miserable and Ian
guild beyond description, to go through the
same course the next day or the second as the
cas-, may tie.
In some cases the symptoms are less severe,
and "dumh chiIlS are the result. tho cold parry
oxism amounting 10 no moro than a disagrceahle
chiness, accompanies with the Distressing
headache and feelings OF Indebtedness and
misery. The lever is corresponaingly slight,
but usually more protractnl But in al cases
insidious 10 its approaches, tenacious 10 dura.
tinn the ''agne is justly considered dis
tres>ing and vexatious visitant.
There are more remedies, probably, for this
disease than for any other in the list Of durable
complaints, ranging from decoctions of rusty
nails on hard cider, and boncset tea Of country
folks 10 The oHicinal preparations of the drug
gists, TO say nothing of the almost countless
patent specifics labelled 'ague cures" the base
Of all being quinine in some form. Halls
Journal OF Health is authority tor the state
ment that fire and food are the natural antago-
nists of ague, by destroying or rendering inert
the masnla which caus, S it, The remedy is
easily tried, and is inexpensive being first to
kinlle fire every morning and evening In the
room usually occupied by the family at those
hours, and seoood to breakfast before going
into the open air
The same prcvenlives are mentioned in the
writings Of N ?. Willis, as noticed by him to
be the practice OF The farmers along the lower
Rappahannock the theory being that the
stomach more readily absorts miasma when
5npty, and that heat drives it to the regions OF
the atmosphere, above our heads these two
simple rules seem sufficiently preventive to
ward off this annoying and harassing disease,
and are within the means of practice Of nearly
all. ..