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Here something I found a few months ago regarding "country fever". They just didn't yet have a good grasp of the idea of 'germs'. I hope this helps.

"Contemporary physicians and others, however, lived with many forms of "the fever" and were fascinated by their local origin, timing, and relationship: swamp fever, country fever, summer fever, bilious fever, broken bone fever; remittent, intermittent, recurring fever. By the nineteenth century, epidemic yellow fever, too, was seen by most Americans as a southern disease entirely. The turning of the southern seasons, the very lay of the southern land, were more than mere backdrop; they were part of fever's very identity. In this way, fever stood for all disease."

You can read the entire article at:
http://uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/stowe_doctoring.html

Sickness and Health in a Southern Place

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