Medical Topography, &fc. 143 



XVIII. Sketch of the Medical Topography of the Mili- 

 tary Tract of the State of JVezv- York. In a Letter 

 from Dr. John H. Frisbre, of Camillas, to David 

 Hosack, M. D., of Nexv York. Continued (and 

 concluded) from the Medical and Physical Journal, 

 Vol. II. Part II. page 85. 



Query 17. " WHAT treatment do you find 

 the most successful? 



Answer. In replying to query eleventh, the mode of 

 treating our epidemics in former seasons, as well as in 

 this, was described. The simple mode of treating 

 them, which has been practised this season, at first view, 

 appears to have had the best effect. Whether this has 

 been owing to any essential difference in the disease it- 

 self, making it different from the epidemics of preceding- 

 years, can only be known, with certainty, by trying it, 

 for several successive years. My own opinion, which 

 corresponded with that of most of the practitioners in this 

 quarter, is that the fevers of this season have been 

 much more inflammatory than has generally been the 

 case. 



The practice of giving nitre, as a febrifuge, instead 

 of antimonials, in our fevers, has not, until this period, 

 been much in use in this country ; neither has the in- 

 fusion of Little Solomon's- Seal ever been given by any 

 regular practitioner, in this country, to my knowledge, 

 till I recommended it. I found that the Indians used 

 it in fevers, by the name of " White-root." This 



