Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-11-17

Editors Plateau Gazette.

RooKwooD, Tenn, Nov. 18th.
Dear Sirs: Il notice in yourissue of
November 3rd an article under the
head Of Especial Correspondence" from
Wartburg, that a disease almost cpl
demic in extent, was prevailing in that
usually heathful little village; and per-
sons, who seldom if ever, visited Wart-
burg would naturally conclude that
very bad state of things existed both
in regard to the existence of an cpl
demicandthe sanitary regulations of the
town, and that the spring gusllin!
forth from beneath the stones IL non
which rests its magnificent old noun
tains, is 50 impregmted with malaria
that it sows the seed of sickness and
death in its pathway.
| will here state for the benefit of the
good people of Wartburg and for any
one that may contemplate visiting the
place, either on business or for the ben
eft Of their health, that | have made
few visits there professionally to see
patlenss and to ascertain if possible the
cause Of this much dreaded fever.
The first patient | saw was the little
daughter of Mr.. Redman the proprie-
tor Of the hotel who lives nearest the
>pring. and all the water used for
drinking and for culinary purposes
comes from the same source Well,
upon examination found Il case of
pneumonia and not fever, and if any
man has ever been able to establish the
tact that Pneumonia originates from the
use of any sort of water either pure or
impure, he has made discoveries that
no other pathologist either in Europe
or America, has ever yet been able t.
do.
The next case was that of Esq. -
(whose name | have forgotten) was
really a case Of typho-malari. fever
And was informed by DR.. Miller the
resident physician that he had treated
the daughter for the same fever, anc
near by two more children who were
also convalescing; and AS all these par
ties used water from the town sprins
some people concluded that it VIA,
; owing to the impnrity of the water
hut after taking survey of the prem
Uses very soon made up my mind tha
il the cause was local that it originate,
much nearer than the town spring.
A definition Of the term typho malarii
might come in proper place here, s,s
!. presume that a ma ority of the reader
are not familiar with medical phaseol
ogy. By typho-malaria we mean
malarial type of fever, that from neg
Let Or stubbornness to yield to treat
ment, it has taken on typhoid tend
ancy; disease that has prevailed t,
some extent throughout the entir
country, aud more especially in tn
last two years we have found it in
e!isate where. we once thought ttssii
maaria could never exist.
| But taking it all together | don
know of u more healthy locality tina
Wartburg, and if the good citizens {
that hourishing little town would unit
y and adopt some plan of procedure, tc
l. yether with their natural advantage.
$ they could have one of the finest sun
mer resorts in the country. A resol
where people from malarial district
and crowded cities would congregate b
> the hundreds to dev,l'p their muscle
y 10y climbing the mountains, initiate thei
J. lungs with pure air and invigorate the
. stomach and liver by the use Of pun
water.
j. A. SEwELL, NJ. D.