The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-28

intermittents (chills and fever), remttents
(bilious tever), and typho-malarial, low
slow form of fever. often lasting many
days. Formerly there was the congestive
or pernicious fever, which is now very
rare. But science has taught us this in
regard to the hidden foe, malaria, of
which so little is really known, that heat
causes it to ascend in the day, and when
the atmosphere cools at night it again
seeks the level Of the earth. BY avoid
ing night air we in a great degree avoid
malaria.
All other diseases are mild and man
ageable. Pneumonia is rarely seen
amongst wcll-to-do" people, and IS
hardly ever fatal !; but it must be said
that with the n(Go race it is exactly the
reverse. They seriously affected by
it in winter. TN is because of the pc
culiarities Of their constitution, and owing
to their utterly ignoring all the laws and
rules Of health. They are too often
badly clothed and housed. Other dis
eases l shall name such as scarlet fever,
which is rare, and never epidemic, measles,
whooping-cough, Group, which is very
rare and never fatal; all of which are
very mild and require little treatment.
AS an evidence of this will state that in
Tallahassee, surrounded by dense pop
ulation, there are now only three physi-
clans. They attend to.all the practice of
the town and a radius of several miles
around it. Consumption, that most fear
full ofdiseases,. sometimes appears in the
county, but theremflst be strong heredi-
tary predispositi9 Nto develop it, and any
case of it brought here, if early in the
disease, is always greatly ameiorated or
cured. will give one case, which is
type of many others, IN illustration. In
1926 young man CHR. William Wilson)
came to Tallahassee from Vermont far
advanced in consumption. lie was pale
and annotated and STOPPING in his gait,
with constant cough, profuse expectora-
ton and night-sweats. But he was a
great walker, and drank little whiskev
He taught small school, and as his
health improved be started in 1928 the
FLoRIDIAN newspaper, of which, in his
own language, he was sole editor and
proprietor" He got rid Of his cough,
increased his light to about two hun
dred pounds, became as "rough and
rugged as a bcar,'' enjoyed a good respite
for about twenty years, and finally died
in New York of dissipation.
We have known many such cases as
bad as this i'll Leon county, and consump-
ton is durable by climate, and by climate
only. | believe it to be a most eligible
locality for the cure of this disease, for
the following reasons: There are two
conditions necessary for the relief and
cure Of this disease viz: temperature and
elevation. Here the thermometer never
reaches one hundred degrees to produce
relaxation and enervatlon, and tie breeze
from the Gulf, only twenty or twenty
five miles distant, combined with the res
nous atmosphere of the pine country
through WI II passes, all exert q heal
ing nhuendSoh the lungs. Then the ele-
alton Of the country, being abont two hun
dred feet above the level of the sea, gives
it comparative dryness of sphere,
which is thought to be so important in
consumption.
The drinking water Of the cou ntry is
perfectly pure and free from any admix-
ture of calcareous matter oriron; though
there are many strong chalybeate springs
to be found. Free-stone springs abound,
and wells Of from twenty to forty feet in
depth yield an unfailing supply Of excel
lent soft water.
The following on this subject
has been contributed by actual
settlers who have recently come into this
country The first says
To one who has been reared in the
northern or western portions of the
Vy,.,@ ,,t1 L.
cesses of severe cold in winter and parch-
ing heat in summer, the enjoyments of
the mild and genial climate of Florida
are constant succession of delightful
surprises, whose benign influences are
rather multiplied than diminished with
each additional years experience. In
stead Of the cold, wet spring of February,
March and April, to which he has been
accustomed, with its disagreeable routine
of discomforts, not to mention its agri-
cultural disasters of late frosts, it's weeks
of roads hub-deed " in mud, it's Doggy
fields impossible for man or beast, and it's
succession of chad colds" too often de-
veloping into the most insidious and dan
gerous pulmonary diseases, he finds here
in February the warmth and comfort Of
u nOTLHeTH Aprll, Will OHly all occasional
",March wind" or cold rain; in March
the airy, balmy weather of northern
May, and in "A pril the fullness of forest
foliage and luxurance Of vegetation of
northern June. In May, and generally
until the middle of June, there is some
dry weather with hot sunshine, causing
the only approach to an "unhealty sea-
son" in the entire year. and this consists
of tendency to biiousness and ''spring