New Jerfey, Raccoon. 2 5$ 



it often happens, that a perfon who has had a 

 tertian ague, after lofing it for a week or two, 

 gets a quotidian ague in its ftead, which, after a 

 while, again changes into a tertian. The fever 

 commonly attacks the people at the end of Au~ 

 gujiy or beginning of September, and commonly 

 continues during autumn and winter, till towards 

 fpring, when it ceafes entirely. 



STRANGERS who arrive here, commonly are 

 attacked by this ficknefs the firft or fecond year 

 after their arrival ; and it is more violent upon 

 them, than upon the natives, fo that they fome- 

 times die of it ; but if they efcape the firft time, 

 they have the advantage of not being viiited again 

 the next year, or perhaps never any more. It is 

 commonly faid here, that ftrangers, get the fever 

 to accuftom them to the climate. The natives, 

 of European offspring, have annual fits of this 

 ague in fome parts of the country : fome, how- 

 ever, are foon delivered from it; with others, on 

 the contrary, it continues for fix months toge- 

 ther, and others are afflicted with it till they die. 

 The Indians alfo fuffer it, but not fo violently 

 as the Europeans. No age is fecured againft it : 

 in thofe places where it rages annually, you fee 

 old men and women attacked with it; and even 

 children in the cradle, fometimes not above three 

 weeks old : it is likewife quotidian, tertian, or 

 quartan, with them. This autumn the ague was 

 more violent here than it commonly ufed to be. 

 People who are afflicted with it look as pale as 

 death, and are greatly weakened, but in general 

 are not prevented from doing their work in the 

 intervals. It is remarkable, that every year there 



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