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"Not to Bellevue, if that is where your people are dying off so rapidly of ship-fever," he said. "I have a terror of the disease; why I saw it stated that half the physicians at your Alms House were down with it, and that three or four out of the number have died this season."
At another time, overtaken by ship-fever at Montreal, and thought to be beyond help, he had quietly made up his mind that, if he could reach a certain hydropathic establishment in New York, he would recover; and had dragged himself through that long journey, desperately ill as he was, in railway cars, steamers, and stages, until he reached his desired haven; and there he finally recovered, though nearly every other person attacked by the disease at his Montreal hotel had died.
You perhaps are aware that in this ship-fever there sometimes occurs a total loss of sense, which is apt to be mistaken for death?" The clerk paused. Brandon regarded him steadily for a moment. Then he turned, and looked earnestly at the book. "The burials were very hastily made." "Well?" "And it is now believed that some were buried in a state of trance." "Buried alive?" "Buried alive!"
"They were all sick when they left," said Potts; "but before they got to Quebec they were sicker, I'll bet." "Why so?" "Did you ever hear of the ship-fever?" said Potts, in a low voice which sent a sharp trill through every fibre of Brandon's being. He could only nod his head. "Well, the Tecumseh, with her six hundred passengers, afforded an uncommon fine field for the ship-fever.
A friend of mine passed through here yesterday; his herd was sold for delivery on the Elkhorn, north of here, and he tells me he may not be able to reach there before October. He saw your herds and tells me you are driving the guts out of them. So if there's anything in that old 'ship-fever theory, you ought to be quarantined until it snows.
Your class is greatly blessed, my sister, and I think when we remember what it has done for Gretchen and Bertie, we may well thank God for the ship-fever as for an angel in disguise." The next Sunday Etta Mountjoy detained her class a few moments after the school session, and read to them the whole of Bertie's letter.
Brown, said Arthur, 'this is, I thought, a free country. I did not know you could take the law into your own hands in that style. "'That gal's the bother of my life, said Mrs. Brown. 'Mr. Brown, he was in New York when a ship come, and that gal's father and mother must die of the ship-fever, and the gal was left, and Mr.
How did I have such a mad fancy? I will tell you. This ship-fever often terminates in a sort of stupor, in which death generally takes place. Sometimes, however, the patient who has fallen into this stupor revives again. It is known to the physicians as the "trance state." I had seen cases of this at sea.
Then there was a little, low consulting at the door with the renowned "ship's doctor," who positively refused to approach me because he had just come from a case of ship-fever in the steerage, which he feared to communicate to one in my precarious state, but who sent in his imperative orders that I should have soup and sherry-cobbler forthwith, and try and build up my strength for the time of debarkation speaking in a low, growling voice divested of its former clearness, but still strangely resembling that of Basil Bainrothe!
The sailors, by whom England had been thus defended in her utmost need, were dying by hundreds, and even thousands, of ship-fever, in the latter days of August.
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