Quarantine laws : translation of a report, by MM. Magendie, Louis, and Londe (reporter), to the French National Academy of Medicine, on a work by James Gillkrest, M.D., Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, entitled Is yellow fever contagious or not.

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[1852]
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Credit: Quarantine laws : translation of a report, by MM. Magendie, Louis, and Londe (reporter), to the French National Academy of Medicine, on a work by James Gillkrest, M.D., Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, entitled Is yellow fever contagious or not. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    QUARANTINE LAWS. TRANSLATION of a REPORT, by MM. Magendie, Louis, and Londe (Reporter), to the French National Academy of Medicine, on a Work by James Gillkrest, M.D., Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, entitled,— “ Is Yellow Fever Contagious or Not.” Dr. LONDE’S ADDRESS to the NATIONAL ACADEMY. “You have charged MM. Magendie, Louis, and myself, to render an account of a work by Dr. James Gillkrest, Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, in the service of Great Britain; which is entitled, ‘ Is Yellow Fever Contagious nr Not?’ “ The history of Yellow Fever is treated by M. Gillkrest with an erudition which it would be difficult to find equally complete elsewhere. After mentioning observers and monographers, describers of Yellow Fever, beginning with Hippocrates, who speaks of a fever characterized by yellowness of skin, and black vomit, M. Gillkrest arrives at these conclusions : 1st. That the Yellow Fever of America, and that observed in the south-west of Europe, especially in Spain, are identical; an identity acknowledged by all authors, with the exception perhaps of our colleague M. Rochoux. 2ndly. That this disease existed in the Antilles before 1793, and in the Spanish Peninsula before 1764. M. Gillkrest next relates a great number of facts, establish- ing:—