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SEASONAL CHART OF DISEASES
SPRING SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER
insect bites continued fever erysipelas measles
snake bites intermitting fever intermitting fever pneumonia
smallpox
remitting fever bilious fever catarrh
croup inflammatory fever cholera consumption
mumps
measles cholera milk sickness pleurisy
quinsey milk sickness dysentery whooping cough
snake bites
dysentery frostbite
worms hydrophobia croup
smallpox quinsey
scurvy
bowel complaints
insect bites
snake bites
scarlet fever
hydrophobia
YEAR-ROUND DISEASES
anthrax enlarged tonsils phrenitis
earache gravel tetanus
peurperal fever asthma diseases of the
apoplectic fits opthalmia
emphysema headache bone
gonorrhea furuncles psora
apthae or thrush scald head burns
diabetes toothache yellow gum
diarrhea cancer
redgum
(Taken from Drake, A Memoir on the Trembles; Buchan, Domestic Medicine; Gunn, Domestic
Medicine; Eberle, A Treatise of the Practice of Medicine.)
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