Most  of  those  who  have  met  with  this  malady  regard  it  as  a  distinct
form  of  fever,  and  attribute  it,  of  course,  to  the  agency  of  peculiar  and


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specific  causes;  among  which  contagion  is  enumerated,  and  has  been
dwelt  on  by  Pym,  Fellows,  Blane,  Hosack,  and  Monette.  Others,  with
Kush  and  Bancroft  at  their  head,  consider  it  as  merely  a  malignant
form  of  autumnal  remittent,  arising  from  the  usual  sources  of  inter-
mittents  and  remittents — malaria  in  its  various  modifications,  the
efiluvia  from  decaying  vegetable  matters.
Good,  while  he  classes  it  with  remittents,  calling  it  epanetus  malig-
nus,  prefers,  as  he  says,  the  trivial  adjunct  yellow  to  that  of  paludal
fever,  because  he  believes  that  it  may  arise  as  well  from  contagion  as
from  marsh  miasmata.
