THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REPORTER. EDITED BY S. W. BUTLER, M. D., MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NEW ORLEANS ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME. ATKINSON, W. B., 46, 116, 177. BALDWIN, H. R., 141. BONSALL, C. T., 96, 156. BUCKINGHAM, C. E., 67, 199, 293, 433, 558, 6. CLARK, J. H., 229, 511. COONS, I. A., 300. CORSON, THOS. J., 218, 557. DAYTON, WM. L., 226. DEANY, A., 19, 157. DOUGHERTY, A. N., 399. DOUGLASS, R., 8. EWCORSTART, J. K., 264. FINDLAY, W. S., 154. FITHIAN, JOSEPH, 385. FORMAN, SAMUEL R., 54, 125, 334, 530. FORWOOD, W. S., 69. GOTHAM, J., Jr., 66. HARTSHORNE, HENRY, 46. JACKSON, J. W., 560. JACKSON, R. J., 301. JAQUETTE, F. S., 571. JEWETT, FAYETTE, 505. JOHNSON, WM., 12, 515. LEHLBACH, C. F. J., 250, 408. LENTE, F. T., 297. MAULL, D. W., 1. MILLER, GEO. McC., 394, 572. MORROGH, C., 22. PAGE, R. H., 508. PIERSON, WM., Jr, 396. REDFIELD, J. S., 151. REID, N. C., 99, 573. ROGERS, T. C., 448. RYERSON, THOS., 205. SMITH, R. K., 116, TAYLOR, O. H., 460. THORNTON, S. C., 97. TURNBULL, L., 185, 239, 307, 441, 458. ART. I.-Malaria and its Manifestations in Sussex County, Del. By D. W. MAULL, M. D., of Georgetown, Delaware. IN the October No. of the REPORTER, we gave some of the results of our observations upon the developments of malaria in this county. It is our design now to continue this theme in the same discursive manner, by offering a few additional remarks bearing upon the point in question. But our inquiries, in this paper, will be directed more especially to the consideration of the mill-ponds, that we may investigate the operations of the elemental principles of our bilious diseases, as they are modified by these low and submerged grounds. The mill-ponds in our county are one hundred in number, and may be estimated to average fifty acres to each pond, thus making, in the aggregate, five thousand acres of ponds. The county itself embraces an extent of about six hundred thousand acres. The fact of such an extent of submerged land of this nature, affords abundant reason why our mill-ponds may be regarded chiefly as the fons et origo of the greater portion of our bilious diseases. Experience has demonstrated fully that these ponds are not productive of disease, even in the summer or autumn, so long as they are full-so long as there is a good supply of water in them. Under these circumstances, there is no flat nor low ground left exposed to the sun's rays, reeking, and emitting its noisome vapors. It is only when the water has found an exit through the gates, or has evaporated, and has become low, and the flats, as a consequence, exposed, that sickness may be expected to ensue. And, again, these ponds may be low, and not much sickness VOL. XI.-NO. 1 1 |