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Updated: May 26, 2025
Again, in attacks of the breakbone ague or malaria it was customary to call in a local practitioner, generally an elderly lady of the neighborhood who had none of these latter-day prejudices regarding the use of tobacco by the gentler sex.
He was hurriedly carried into the house, and when the army surgeon arrived, it was found to be a case of sunstroke. Though he was bled copiously, the sufferer improved but slowly, and before he was convalescent developed the "river" or "breakbone fever." Finally he was ordered over the mountains to the Warm Springs, to see whether their waters might not benefit him; and, leaving Mr. and Mrs.
"Hi, squire!" he saluted. "Goin' somewheres?" "No; jest knockin' about," the squire said "jest sorter lookin' the place over." "Hot agin ain't it?" said the other. The squire allowed that it was, for a fact, mighty hot. Commonplaces of gossip followed this county politics and a neighbor's wife sick of breakbone fever down the road a piece. The subject of crops succeeded inevitably.
Let them do so only till the first hot breath of real Delta summer should bring typhoid, breakbone, yellow, and swamp fevers, the last by all odds the worst, and Butler's unacclimated troops would have to reëmbark for home pell-mell or die on Ship Island like poisoned fish. So much for the front gate. For the back gate, Corinth, which just now seemed the speaker harkened.
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