Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-19


the much dreaded malaria
would be driven awaylnto the
I low and swampy disttts, and
+, a country which now, b its ne
elected and halfqltivated
state, is a terror to Bhe new
conner, would becom almost
entirely healthy.
That this is emhatically
true is shown by thestatistics
IF Virginia from 1916 to 1861.
During this period Of time the
agricultural prosperitl Of this
country reached its msximum.
Under the lead of Edmund Ruf
!. fin the farmers had lined Or
married their landa. Ditching
and sub-draining had taken off
the superhuous water, and an
: improved method of cultivation
had transformed the whole of
the country, so that the English
traveller would almost imagine
| himself back again on his own
beautiful island, where science,
industry and capital had ex-
hausted themselves for centu-
ries in developing the soil to
its highest degree of productive
! ness. .. .s
Four years of wasting war
have passed over our State.
Trampled underfoot by half a
million of soldiers, thu land
owner fighting desperately in
q sinking cause : the laborer
| Aeeinga from his old home in
search of that happ! land
where there would be all play
and no work these influences
have thrown the county back
temporarily into its original
Fconditioh, When malaria reign
| ed supreme, and the white man,
,unacclirnated, feared to venture
his life amid the green swamps,
and rich low grounds of our
great rivers 4,
/ 81 The experienced farmer well
knows that6ttl tse difficulties
are surely and safely overcome.
Already, under many adverse
lteir puinstances, the fall diseases
are becoming less frequent and
| more easily managed. We may
will truth say that 8even now
lthe emigrant viii find himself
! III the enjoyment of better
health than if he followed the
great tide which pours its inn
mense volume towards the.
Western States. "a few years
lfof patient toll will again restore
our land to more than its pris-
tine state OF saiubrity; and we
Ewill sec it again smiling in the
snnshine ,ofiprosperity. I saa
3. The history of medical
| science and observation on this
point have shown beyond doubt
that it is in our power to pro-
tect the human constitution
from the effects of malaria,
even in it's malignant form.
Twenty-Five years ago the
medical staff on duty with the
British African squadron prac-,
tised the preventive method
upon those who were exposed
to the deadly levers If that cli-.
mate with great success. ri
Since that period this same
treatment has been successfully
adopted by the j French and
English forces servingiln aChr
ma, the great Anglo-4ndian
army in the jungles of the
East; the allied troops in the
Crimea, and, coming down to
our own day, the same pro-
phylactic practice has protected
the Federal artny9in the val
leys of the Chickahominy and
the James, and the Confederate
troopsaon duty in the rice lands
Of Georgia and the Carolinas.
" lncivil practice these views
have been repeatedly proved to
be true. So that now the
Panama company successfully
carry on their line of railway
. across that famous nest of.
malaria. Chagres and Panama
.Ifever have sunk into compare
| tive insignifcance, and che en-
4 ployee and the traveller alike
IGNORE the danger of Injection,
feeling safe under the protec-
ting power of quinine.
The experience of all obser-
vers unites in giving to the
salts of quinie the frs place
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