New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register

[From the Charleston Courier,]

The Dengue. This very disagreeable epidemic exists at this time in our city, to an extraordinary extent-we think we are perfectly within bounds when we say, one fourth of our population have had, or now have it-and every hour appears to be adding to the number. It made its appearance among us about two weeks ago, and should it continue to spread much longer as rapidly as it has done the last two weeks, not an individual in the city will have escaped. It has not in any instance proved fatal; but the pain is often very acute, and from its frequently attacking a hale brawny man of 6 feet in height and 200 pounds weight, in the little finger or great toe, with a severity that almost makes him cry out, affords much merriment to those who have recovered from or have not yet taken it. There appears but little sympathy for the sufferer. Its duration is from six hours to three days. It is treated mildly-a little salts and snake root, and warm lemonade, to produce perspiration, though in some cases it is permitted to come and go without any thing being taken to check or relieve the pain. At the time we are writing about half a dozen persons employed in this office are down with it among them nearly all our carriers-therefore, we trust we shall meet with indulgence from our subscribers, if the Courier should, for a few days, be irregularly served to them.

[From the Philadelphia Gazette.]

Dengue. This disease has made a tour through the Islands of the West Indies, Vera Cruz, and it appears in this morning's paper that it has commenced its tour through the United States, having commenced at Charleston. In none of the above mentioned places has it proved fatal. It is called in the Windward Islands the Dandy fever, in Havana the Dingy (which is probably a corruption of Dengue) and in Vera Cruz the Petit Fleur, from small red spots of irregular shape appearing on the face and body.

It attacks the patient in different ways. In Vera Cruz it generally commences with pain in the head and back, with weakness and nausea, and sometimes vomiting, with desultory pains in the limbs-the febrile symptoms continue generally 24 hours, when it gives way, but in many cases returns at irregular periods--in some cases the fever does not return, but leaves the patient weak, and in almost every case lame, with a continual nausea, sometimes for two or three weeks, but in most cases about a week. It was not an unusual thing in Vera Cruz last May, to meet an acquaintance in the morning limping on one leg, and in the afternoon limping on the other-one day with a stiff right arm, and the next with the left arm disabled. It attacked me with violent pain in the head and loins, very similar to the yellow fever, which I have had five times, but left me in 36 hours, with very slight desultory pains in the limbs, and weakness.

The only medicine administered in this disease in Vera Cruz was an ounce of Epsom salts, with one grain of tartar emetic, and rice or barley water as a drink. When perspiration appears, the disease has passed its crisis. There was scarcely a person in Vera Cruz that had escaped this disease.-It was quite a subject of merriment with the friends of the sufferer, and so common that I believe a person might have the yellow fever some time before anybody could be made to believe it was any thing more than the Petit Fleur. It will doubtless go through the United States, for it is as contagious as small pox or measles, and may excite some alarm at this season of the year till we become acquainted with it.

W. E. S.

[From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce]

The Dengue Fever-about which, in Cuba and Charleston, our readers have heard so much, seems at last to have reached us (New-York) and that too without passing over the intervening space, for we have not heard of it in Philadelphia or Baltimore or any where this side of Charleston. One of the morning papers of yesterday, made mention of a case in this city, and one of the persons connected with this office being the subject of some odd sensation, was told yesterday, on application to a physician, that "it was nothing but the Dengue Fever."

P. S. Since writing the above we have heard of another case.

Report speaks of the Dengue having extended to New-England, and of the occurrence of a few cases in Boston. But it may be merely a "Boston notion."