132 Miscellaneous Facts and Observations. 



it was remarkable, that " in not one instance," did 

 these communicate the disease to others " in the 

 town." He thought there was some reason to be- 

 lieve, that one or two persons received the disease, 

 in Boston, from washing the clothes of the sick. 



While the typhus raged in Hospital-Island, there 

 were some persons ill of the same disease in the hos- 

 pital in Boston. These (it is said) did communicate 

 the disease to their nurses, &c. 



The disease prevailed at Hospital- Island, and in 

 Boston, especially in the month of October. 



Editor's MS. Medical Journal, 

 for 1794. 



7. The Cheerake-Indians are subject to intermit- 

 tent fevers, which (it is said) they cure by means of 

 certain roots. They are also subject to a disease 

 called by the white traders " the head-Pleurisy." It 

 is thought to be contagious. In the course of a sin- 

 gle week, in the summer of 1779, it carried off 350 

 of these Indians. Some of the sick died after an ill- 

 ness of less than twenty-four hours. The practice of 

 sweating was thought to be one cause of the exces- 

 sive mortality of the disease. The disease is very 

 common along the low-grounds of the River Tennes- 

 see, and near stagnant waters. 



