Note XXIX-37 — Chapter XXIX · THE PEOPLE OF HONDURAS AND GUATEMALA. 1800-1887.
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The fevers of the country are the intermittent, resembling the worst form of fever and ague in the western U. S.; the calentura, which is a type of the same. It is not common in the interior, and yields usually to strong cathartics, followed by quinine, which physicians are wont to administer in heavy doses. Wells' Hond., 547-8. Yellow fever breaks out with more or less virulence some years at the ports, particularly on the Atlantic side; it has occasionally spread to the interior. Diario de Méx., 539-40, 569-71; Amér. Cent. Cie Belge, ii. 48-52; Disturnell's Infl. of Clim., 252; Costa R., Informe Sec. Gobern., 1869, 15; Nic., Gaceta, May 9 to Aug. 8, 1868; Laferrière, De Paris à Guatém., 47-8, and table 444 B. Measles and scarlet fever have also made their appearance epidemically, destroying many lives. Salv., El Siglo, May 28 to Aug. 14, 1851; Id., Diario Ofic., July 31, 1875; Costa R., Mem. Sec. Guerra, etc., 1867, doc. D, 31.