But This Subject
Requires Scientific Comparative Observation On Various Parts Of The
Coast, For Cameroons Is At The Beginning Of The South-West Coast,
Whereon The Percentage Of Cases Of Haematuric To Those Of
Intermittent And Remittent Fevers Is Far Higher Than On The West
Coast.
A comparative study of the diseases of the western division of the
continent would, I should say, repay a scientific doctor, if he
survived.
The material he would have to deal with would be
enormous, and in addition to the history of haematuric he would be
confronted with the problem of the form of fever which seems to be a
recent addition to West African afflictions, the so-called typhoid
malaria, which of late years has come into the Rivers, and
apparently come to stay. This fever is, I may remark, practically
unknown at present in the South-West Coast regions where the "sun
for garbage" plan is adhered to. At present the treatment of all
white man's diseases on the Coast practically consists in the
treatment of malaria, because whatever disease a person gets hold of
takes on a malarial type which masks its true nature. Why, I knew a
gentleman who had as fine an attack of the smallpox as any one would
not wish to have, and who for days behaved as if he had remittent,
and then burst out into the characteristic eruption; and only got
all his earthly possessions burnt, and no end of carbolic acid
dressings for his pains.
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