September, and October were unusually healthy. A few cases of malignant
sore throat appeared in November. They were, in all the patients that
came under my notice, attended with bilious discharges from the stomach
and bowels. So little rain fell during the autumnal months, that the
wheat perished in many places. The weather in December was extremely
cold. The lamps of the city were, in several instances, extinguished by
it, on the night of the 23d of the month, at which time the mercury stood
at 2° below 0 in the thermometer.
The yellow fever prevailed this year in Charleston, in South-Carolina,
where it was produced by putrid exhalations from the cellars of houses
which had been lately burnt. It was said by the physicians of that place
not to be contagious. The same fever prevailed, at the same time, at
Wilmington, in North-Carolina, and at Newburyport, in the state of
Massachusetts. In the latter place, it was produced by the exhalation of
putrid fish, which had been carelessly thrown upon a wharf.
END OF VOLUME III.
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Transcriber's note:
The original spelling and minor inconsistencies in the spelling and
formatting have been maintained.
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