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Richmond Palladium
Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana
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Widespread chills and fevers afflict eastern Virginia this year, impacting families around Petersburg and causing tobacco crop neglect due to sick negroes. A remedy of warm sweet milk with ground ginger is recommended for chills.
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Chills and Fever
The whole of Virginia, east of the Blue Ridge, has this year been more subject to chills and fevers than at any other period within the memory of man. There is scarcely a family within a circuit of fifty miles around Petersburg that has not had one or more of its inmates 'down' with the most annoying of diseases. In some counties, we hear, the tobacco crop has suffered for the want of the proper attention--the negroes being sick with ague and fever.
We find in the last Union a remedy for the disease, which is so simple and convenient, that we should not hesitate to try it.
Remedy for chills and fevers, or fever and ague.—Take one pint of sweet milk and one large table-spoonful of ground ginger, mixed thoroughly, and heated over the fire as warm as it can be drunk, when the chill comes on or commences. Repeat the dose once or twice, if necessary, and the cure will be effected.
N. B. If the system be costive, an aperient may be necessary in order to prepare it properly for the above prescription.
This is the most accessible, the cheapest, the most efficacious, and the speediest remedy in the world. As this is the season for the prevalence of that disease, I do myself the honor to furnish you with the above recipe.
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Virginia East Of The Blue Ridge
Event Date
This Year
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many families affected with chills and fevers; tobacco crop suffered due to sick negroes; remedy of sweet milk and ginger claimed to cure.
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The whole of Virginia east of the Blue Ridge has been unusually subject to chills and fevers this year, affecting nearly every family around Petersburg and causing neglect of tobacco crops as negroes fall ill with ague and fever. A remedy from the Union is provided: one pint sweet milk with one large tablespoonful ground ginger, heated warm and drunk at chill onset, repeated if necessary; aperient if costive.