Geographical pathology v. 2, Հատոր 2D. Appleton & Company, 1892 |
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admissions affected altitude amongst anæmia annual appears April Atlantic coast attacks August Australia average Beriberi bilious Bronchitis cachexia causes cent Central Cholera climate Colony coloured common consumption December diarrhoea Diphtheria districts dysentery east elevation endemic England enteric fever epidemic form Europeans extent fatal February feet fever death-rate Fever Deaths frequent occurrence Hirsch hospital infection influenza interior intermittent fever inundation island January July June lakes Leprosy less liver localities malarial fever March marshy Mauritius maximum mean temperature Measles méd months mountain natives November observed occurred October outbreaks pathology phthisis plains pneumonia population Port Louis prevalent provinces rainfall rains rainy season range rare ratio region remittent fever Rheumatism rise river Scarlet Fever Scrofula Senegal September Smallpox soil southern square miles stations suffer swamps symptoms Syphilis table-land tertian total deaths total mortality town troops typhoid fever unhealthy valley Victoria yellow fever
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Էջ 956 - The simple fact is to be recollected," says Jones,1 " that this epidemic affects a whole region in the space of a week, nay, a whole continent as large as North America, together with all the West Indies, in the course of a few weeks, while theinhabitants could not within so short a time have had any communication or intercourse whatever across such a vast extent of country.
Էջ 829 - Georgia, as witnessed by the writer, as well as the lowlands of our southern States generally, may be seen deplorable examples of the physical, and perhaps mental, deterioration, induced by endemic influences. In earliest infancy, the complexion becomes sallow, and the eye assumes a bilious tint. Advancing towards the years of maturity, the growth is arrested, the limbs become attenuated, and the viscera engorged. Boys of...
Էջ 485 - ... to render the land in question one of the most pestiferous spots under the sun. It is a collection of jungles and woods and marshes and rivers and sea swamps, and it is a flat land under a tropical sun, and it is the land of monsoons ; and yet it is a land where fevers are unknown.
Էջ 835 - stagnant, or even foul water," no matter how offensive to smell or taste ; for water with these qualities has always existed in many towns free from ague, and, on the other hand, many tracts of dry and sandy soil have been its favorite haunts. Not from bacillus malaria in the water, which would be carried with the current; while ague moves up stream, and against the current of every principal river in Connecticut. It cannot be from germs carried by winds; for the direction for the year, in the State,...
Էջ 565 - ... populations of diseases introduced by Europeans is well known; so also is the effect of indigenous diseases on the European newcomer in various parts of the world. Many diseases seem to have been entirely absent in some isolated land masses. Davidson says for instance that Australia presents us with a spectacle of a continent, from the pathology of which entire classes of diseases, prevalent in other divisions of the globe, were, until comparatively recent times, completely absent. Thus the whole...
Էջ 947 - ... as the Brazilians term it, ending probably in consumption. The disorder has been known to break out when the visitors were entirely free from it ; the simple contact of civilised men, in some mysterious way, being sufficient to create it.
Էջ 645 - At Stanley Pool, about 1100 feet above sea level, fever of a pernicious form was prevalent. While ascending the Congo with the wind astern we were unusually exempted from ague. But descending the Upper Congo, facing the wind, we were smitten with most severe forms of it.
Էջ 645 - Boma, 80 feet higher, the ague is more common still. " At Vivi, there were more cases than elsewhere, and the station was about 250 feet higher than Boma, and not a swamp was near it.
Էջ 805 - Rocky mountains, the distinguishing feature of the distribution of atmospheric precipitation in rain is its symmetry and uniformity in amount over large areas. The quantity has rarely or never any positive relation to the configuration of the surface which would identify it with the distribution of...
Էջ 805 - For much the larger area of the United States, and for all portions east of the Rocky Mountains, the distinguishing feature of the distribution of the rainfall is its symmetry and uniformity in amount over large areas. The quantity has rarely or never any positive relation to the configuration of the surface, which would identify it with Europe and the North Pacific coasts ; and in contrast with these it has a diminished quantity at the greater altitudes generally, and the largest amounts in the...