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In southern Iowa, early settlers found coal outcroppings along rivers and streams. People moving into northwest Iowa, an area also devoid of trees, constructed sod houses. ... Pioneers frequently contracted communicable diseases such as scarlet fever. Fever and ague, which consisted of alternating fevers and chills,
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In North America, the early European settlers also reported exceptionally severe winters. For example, in 1607-8 ... For example, in temperate regions, epidemic transmission of malaria tended to occur in late summer and autumn, giving rise to the common terms aestivo-autumnal or harvest fever for tertians and quartans.
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VRI; DISEASE AND DEATH; AMONG THE EARLY SETTLERS; IN HOLLAND, MICHIGAN; ... The city had known doctors of various calibers during the early years. This study contains a first inventory. By way of comparison, an overview of the health situation in the other main Dutch colony, Pella, Iowa, ... The word means ague, fever, and chills;
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A common complaint among the early settlers was the "ague" or "chills and fever" or "shakes." A vivid description of it is given in the History of Hardin County, Iowa, for it was no respecter of place, time or persons.
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See also Pine Lake Norwegian settlers as listed in: A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning Down to the year 1848, by George T. Flom, Ph.D. privately printed, Iowa, City, Iowa, 1909 ... The early colony of Pine Lake included Swedish, Norwegian, and 1 Danish settler.
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J. C. Cooper, Bennett's attorney, tried to get a bill through the Iowa legislature for Bennett's relief, ... One of the serious obstacles in the way of the early settlers in building their homes and making improvements,w as the prevalence of the malady, chills and fever, or the shaking ague, rendering them unfit for...
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The old home is still standing and is an historic relic of early times. ... During that time our subject was engaged in farming, but crops proved a failure, his health was broken down with the fever and ague and he resolved to return to the North. Gathering his household effects together he started for Henry County, Iowa.
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terns of Iowa's early settlers. In the 1830s, there were two primary .... many settlers suffered from fever and ague (malaria) on these wet prairies. ...
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