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APPENDIX. 93 other low places that are liable to malaria and zymotic causes of disease, they are apt to be sickly. Asa consequence we find them inclined to remove during the sickly season to the higher regions of the pine, and that in so doing they are generally exempt from malarial and typhoid diseases and affections caused by micro-organisms. Farmers and others who reside near the coast of our own State and that of South Carolina are familiar with these significant facts and profit by them when they are able to do so. The intelligent farmer who clears his swamp land and cultivates his low-land farm knows that he is in danger of sickness if he constructs his dweUing in the same place and inhabits it, and hence he chooses some elevated pine ridge as his residence, w^ith the air and drinking-water purified with the emanations from the surrounding pines. The great work of sanitary progress in the way of better drinking-water, more efficient drainage and purer air that is going on in our State, is steadily preventing preventable causes of disease and lessening our bills of mortality. It deserves to be repeated, with emphasis, that in the piney belts of North and South Carolina diphtheria, typhoid and malarial fevers, puerperal fever, and the whole class of zymotic diseases are extremely rare, I cannot say positively that the peculiar exemption of these extensive piney belts from these diseases, including consumption, is due to the pine tree, but it is a fact beyond dispute that where the turpentine tree is abundant certain classes of diseases, such as consumption, malarial diseases, diphtheria, puerperal fever and other affections due to bacterial infection or to the presence of germs and microbes, are of very rare occurrence. Why this is so remains to be discovered by the investigations of some scientific germs. As to the remedial effects of turpentine in diseases of the class mentioned, our experience and that of every observant physician will bear testimony to its admirable action. Its daily increased use by the profession in this class of diseases everywhere, and its traditional use for ages,.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-01: Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health [1879-1908] |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1891-1892 |
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Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1891-1892 |
Identifier | NCHH-01-004-0103 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 4 |
Page Number | 93 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | APPENDIX. 93 other low places that are liable to malaria and zymotic causes of disease, they are apt to be sickly. Asa consequence we find them inclined to remove during the sickly season to the higher regions of the pine, and that in so doing they are generally exempt from malarial and typhoid diseases and affections caused by micro-organisms. Farmers and others who reside near the coast of our own State and that of South Carolina are familiar with these significant facts and profit by them when they are able to do so. The intelligent farmer who clears his swamp land and cultivates his low-land farm knows that he is in danger of sickness if he constructs his dweUing in the same place and inhabits it, and hence he chooses some elevated pine ridge as his residence, w^ith the air and drinking-water purified with the emanations from the surrounding pines. The great work of sanitary progress in the way of better drinking-water, more efficient drainage and purer air that is going on in our State, is steadily preventing preventable causes of disease and lessening our bills of mortality. It deserves to be repeated, with emphasis, that in the piney belts of North and South Carolina diphtheria, typhoid and malarial fevers, puerperal fever, and the whole class of zymotic diseases are extremely rare, I cannot say positively that the peculiar exemption of these extensive piney belts from these diseases, including consumption, is due to the pine tree, but it is a fact beyond dispute that where the turpentine tree is abundant certain classes of diseases, such as consumption, malarial diseases, diphtheria, puerperal fever and other affections due to bacterial infection or to the presence of germs and microbes, are of very rare occurrence. Why this is so remains to be discovered by the investigations of some scientific germs. As to the remedial effects of turpentine in diseases of the class mentioned, our experience and that of every observant physician will bear testimony to its admirable action. Its daily increased use by the profession in this class of diseases everywhere, and its traditional use for ages,. |
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Article Title | Our Pine Forests as Factors of Health |
Article Author | Satchwell, S. S. |
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