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Title: A systematic treatise, historical, etiological and practical, on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America : as they appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of its population
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Drake, Daniel, 1785-1852
Subjects: Medical geography Medical climatology
Publisher: Cincinnati : Winthrop B. Smith & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ttentsbreak out among the troo).)S; while the people who live a mile or two fromthe river, in the woods, escape. The returns show a ratio of thirty-four percent, per annum for iutermittents, and of sixteen for remittents.t From the barracks to St. Louis the distance is twelve miles. The bluffs,consisting of the same limestone, continue Iom^, and in most places rise gentlyfrom the river. Between the two places, stands the aricient French villageof Carondelet, bearing to the American Bottom a relation similar to that ofJeffersou Barracks; but its native inhabitants do not seem to have sufferedmucli from autumnal fever. Several miles higher up is the United StatesArsenal, built on a gentle and rocky slope. III. St. Louis.—While New Orleans is the metropolis of the whole basinof the Mississippi, St. Louis is the emporium of the northern half of that basin.Destined to be forever the most important city on the banks of the Missis- * Pecks Gazetteer of Illiuois. t Med. Stat. U. S. A. PL IX
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Jjitlio- InjJ.-WoAi Fiu-c i:iO. C.l. Fiillri- r.-I.C-Kiiiii PART I.) INTERIOR VALLEY OF NORTH AMERICA. 139 sippi, above New Orleans, it may justly claim tlie attention of the medicaletiologist. Its distance from the Balize is thirteen hundred and ninety miles — fromNew Orleans twelve hundred and eighty-six. Its Lat. is 38*^ 37 28 N.;its Lon. dO^ 15 39 W. Thus it stands 8« 40 5 N. and 16 35 \Y. ofthat city. The general course of the Mississippi is well shown hy thesenumbers. In flowing twelve hundred and eighty-six miles, and traversingnearly nine degrees of latitude, its longitudes at those cities, vary less thanthree quarters of a degree. According to Nicollet,* the elevation of theriver, at low water, opposite St. Louis, is three hundred and eighty-two feetabove the Gulf, or three hundred and seventy-two above the surface at NewOrleans. If this be correct, the fall in the Mississippi from the upper to thelower city, is three inches and forty-seven hundredths a mile; or eight inch

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