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dular paits, with small doses of calomel, opium, and 

 camphor, musk, castor, and saffron combined. 



Query 15. " When it proves fatal, upon what day of 

 the disease is that generally the case ? What is the ap- 

 pearance of the skin ; does it become yellow, or 

 orange-coloured, or livid ? When does this appearance 

 first show itself? What is the state of the tongue? 

 Are your patients very thirsty, as in most febrile com- 

 plaints ?" 



Answer. When the disease proves fatal, it is, in ge- 

 neral, on, or about, the twentieth day. We have had 

 one instance, in this country, of a fatal termination on 

 the seventh day (Edward Donner, of Onondaga), who 

 was supposed to have taken the fever by being several 

 days on and about the Onondaga-Lake : one in Scipio, 

 county of Cayuga, who died on the fifth, and one on the 

 ninth day of their disorder. The two last were taken 

 ill soon after being exposed to marsh exhalations, at the 

 outlet of the Cayuga-Lake. A company, of about 

 twenty persons, went from the town of Scipio to the 

 oudet, where there is a large marsh, to procure hay. 

 Twelve of the twenty sickened, and two died. About 

 the same number went from the town of Milton, at the 

 same time, and the efiect, I am informed, was nearly 

 the same. 



It is a common thing to hear of the inhabitants of the 

 southern towns, being taken ill of fever, shortly after 

 being exposed to the exhalations from their lakes, 

 streams, and marshes. * * * *. Doctor B. Beach^ 



