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of typhus. The year before they were very frequent. 

 Intermittents have been very common, especially on 

 the banks of the Mohawk-River, and about the lakes. 

 The symptoms of bilious remittent, or typhus, fevers, 

 do not vary from the descriptions given of them by 

 many writers on this subject, which are too well 

 known to you to need repetition. I have observed, 

 that persons seized with typhus grow worse at periods, 

 from seven to ten days, until about thirty days, and 

 recover in the same order or periods. 



As to the treatment of this fever, or dysentery, I 

 cannot say I have ever been satisfied, either with 

 my own, or other gentlemen's practice. Perhaps 

 there is as great variety in means prescribed for the 

 cure of those two disorders in the country, as for Yel- 

 low-Fever in town. From what I have seen, I am far 

 from believing that bleeding, cathartics, and the anti- 

 phlogistic method of cure to be without objections ; 

 neither am I of opinion, that bark, wine, and opium 

 are infallible. I have generally cleared the first passa- 

 ges with neutral salts, jalap, and calomel, if the symp- 

 toms indicated an inflammatory diathesis, or if there 

 was nausea, or load at the stomach. I am inclined 

 to think, small doses of calomel, so as to affect the 

 gums slightly, after a few days from the commencement 

 of the disorder, and some wine and bark, on the de- 

 cline of the fever, have proved most successful. Very 

 few have died of this fever, in this village, or its vi- 

 cinity, for some years past. The gums and glands 

 about the neck, and other parts of the body, are often 

 much affected, and even the jaw-bone quite carious, 



