. ich occurredwere principally confined to its suburbs, and along the water-courses. The dis-ease was recognized as miasmatic, and treated accordingly. From a letter of Dr. N. B. Lane, written to his sister, Mrs. Hayman ofGeorgetown, D. C., dated September 30, 1823, we make the following quota-tions: There has been much sickness in Franklin County this season, butparticular in this neighborhood. Dr. Culbertson (the leading, but not themost employed physician in the town) has ridden from four o clock in themorning, till three oclock,
. ich occurredwere principally confined to its suburbs, and along the water-courses. The dis-ease was recognized as miasmatic, and treated accordingly. From a letter of Dr. N. B. Lane, written to his sister, Mrs. Hayman ofGeorgetown, D. C., dated September 30, 1823, we make the following quota-tions: There has been much sickness in Franklin County this season, butparticular in this neighborhood. Dr. Culbertson (the leading, but not themost employed physician in the town) has ridden from four o clock in themorning, till three oclock, three nights in succession; his shop was often sofull that many could not get speaking to him for hours after being in. Therehave not been many deaths in proportion to the number sick, but many havedied notwithstanding. Business never was so dull in our place since my firstrecollection of it; but it is owing to the sickness. The diseases are bilious fe-ver, ague and fever and dysentery; the last has been most obstinate, and hasbut lately made its ^ -M> (jAcv^rutfJ HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 289 Cholera has twice invaded Chainbersburg, in 1832 and in 1852, and provedvery destructive. It is a striking fact that the first case, in each visitation,occurred in the same house, located in a healthy and central part of the instances, however, have been reported in the history of the first case in the epidemic of 1S32 was a boy who had just returned homefront Hagerstown, Md., where the cholera was prevailing. Excepting personswho had visited Chambersburg, no cases, we believe, occurred in the country. Dysentery prevailed endemically in Chambersburg in 1850, and carriedoff several of our foremost citizens. In 1850 it raged along the foot of theNorth Mountain, and in 1885 it appeared violently in the same region, havingits center in Mercersburg. Typho-malarial fever frequently spreads along the mountain side, and ery-sipelas and puerperal diseases
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