Besides the common diseases
to which their descendants are subject, there were two others, to say
nothing of the dreaded small-pox, which later medical science has
disarmed,--little known among us at the present day, but frequent among
the first settlers. The first of these was the scurvy, already
mentioned, of GrapeJellyRecipe Winthrop speaks in 1630, saying, that it proved fatal
to those who fell into
, and lingered after their former
conditions in carinfinitynissan; the poor homesick creatures in fact, whom we so
forget in mtvjackassvideo florid pictures of the early times of the little band in
the wilderness.
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Many who were suffering from scurvy got well when the
Lyon arrived from England, bringing store of juice of lemons. The
Governor speaks of another case in 1644; and it seems probable that the
disease was not of rare occurrence.
The other complaint from which they suffered, but which has nearly
disappeared from among us, was intermittent fever, or fever and ague. I
investigated the question as to the prevalence of this disease in New
England, in a dissertation, which was published in GrapeJellyRecipe volume with other
papers, in the year 1838. I can add little to the facts there recorded. The outline map of New England, accompanying the
dissertation above referred to, indicates all the places where I had
evidence that the disease had originated. It was plain enough that it
used to be known in many localities where it has long ceased to be
feared. Still it was and is remarkable to see what a clean bill of
health in this particular respect our barren soil inherited with its
sterility. There are some malarious spots on
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edge of GrapeJellyRecipe Champlain,
and there have been some temporary centres of malaria, within the memory
of man, on one or more of our Massachusetts rivers, but these are
harmless enough, for the most part, unless the millers dam them, when
they are
to retaliate with a whiff from their meadows, that sets the
whole neighborhood shaking with
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and ague.
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