--The following, which we copy from the New York
Tribune, of May 29th, indicates that the
Yankee soldiers are having a mash time of it in the swamps below
Richmond:
Mrs. Parker and
Worster, eminent physician of large practice in this city, say, with emphasis, that it is difficult, and in many instincts impossible, for the sick and wounded men to get well, so long as they are exposed to the malaria arising from the swamps in
Virginia.
Several times the neighborhood of
Yorktown has been depopulated by the poisoned atmosphere that hangs like the wing of death over that section of country.
The fevers that visit the camp of the soldier arise from various cases — exhalation, brought on by long and rapid marches, the use of unwholesome water, sleeping on the damp ground, weakness resulting from bleeding wounds, &c.--but they all are aggravated by the poison in the air; indeed, the miasma is, in nine cases out of ten, the sole cause of the fevers that have so fearfully depleted our army in
Virginia.
The gentlemen quoted as authority insist: that nutrition, tonics, and , are the curatives to be employed in removing this disease in all its phases.
Let the patient be removed beyond the malarious atmosphere — place him in comfortable quarter, where he can obtain hearty food, good medical assistance, and render nursing — supply him generously with stimulants and tonics, and he will probably regain his health.
The fever usually runs twenty-one days; in instances where the patient has been very much exhausted and enfeebled, it may require a much longer time for the system to recuperate.
