. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . erly physician to theMarine Hospital in this city, is from the carbon, sulphur and iodine containedin it, highly favorable to lung and cutaneous diseases. The smoke is also anti-miasmatic, hence the few cases of remittent and intermittent fever. Dr. Wm. H. Denny says: Strangers with weak lungs for a while find theirlungs aggravated by the smoke; but, nevertheless, asthmatic patients havefound relief in breathing it. In this account, coal is our creditor; in anotherway its abundance, cheapness and consequent general and profuse use by thepoore
. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . erly physician to theMarine Hospital in this city, is from the carbon, sulphur and iodine containedin it, highly favorable to lung and cutaneous diseases. The smoke is also anti-miasmatic, hence the few cases of remittent and intermittent fever. Dr. Wm. H. Denny says: Strangers with weak lungs for a while find theirlungs aggravated by the smoke; but, nevertheless, asthmatic patients havefound relief in breathing it. In this account, coal is our creditor; in anotherway its abundance, cheapness and consequent general and profuse use by thepoorest inhabitants, is undoubtedly the cause of our superior low fevers so prevalent in the large cities among the poor during a hardwinter, and the ague and fever so common in the eastern countries where woodis scarce, are here in a measure prevented by the universal practice of keepinggood coal fires late iu the spring and early in the autumn, and indeed at all sea-sons when the weather is damp or inclement. s > QW.
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