Country watered by the Mohawk, &c. 9 



Very few die of this fever, if they have assistance 

 in season. The bark with wine is a sovereign remedy, 

 if the system is not too far exhausted, to receive the 

 stimulus of those remedies. There is a strong lan- 

 guor, or leucophlegmatic appearance, in those people 

 who have been severely attacked by this complaint ; a 

 kind of stupid insensibility, and want of animal 

 warmth, which they often carry about them for many 

 months. Their gums sometimes become spungy; 

 teeth loose and carious, with hemorrhages from the 

 gums, nose, and throat, long after the fever has 

 subsided, and the appetite very voracious. To one 

 that has been in the habit of observing those fevers, 

 it is not difficult to discern the character of the Inter- 

 mittent through the whole of this fever; and I am 

 fully convinced, it is no other than a high degree of 

 this disorder, increased, perhaps, by the quantity of 

 contagion, or the dirty and miserable situation of those 

 people, as to houses, linen, and other things, which 

 are so necessary to health. 



At the Salt-Springs, in the County of Onondaga, 

 there have been great numbers of cases every au- 

 tumn. I have seen hundreds who have taken this 

 fever, but I cannot conceive it to be different from the 

 other cases I have mentioned. 

 I am, Sir, &c. 



Matthew Brown, jun. 

 Rome, April 1, 1804. 



Dr. David Hosack, New- Tork. 



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