A brief view of the yellow fever, as it appeared in Andalusia during the epidemic of 1820.

  • O'Halloran, Thomas, -1832.
Date:
1821
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Credit: A brief view of the yellow fever, as it appeared in Andalusia during the epidemic of 1820. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    It is under circumstances such as I now describe, where ten or fifteen persons occupy the same ill-ventilated room, that disease commits its most terrible ravages; few, in such cases, escaping with life, when seri- ously attacked. The dress of the Spaniard, the native of this province, consists of breeches, leather gaiters, short jacket, loose great coat, slouch- ed hat, and the manta or rug which is oc- casionally used as an outward covering. All these are of the coarsest materials; and as cleanliness of person is not much valued, and but little attended to (a clean shirt ex- cepted), the clothes are rarely changed, or seldom even taken off, except to diminish the number of vermin with which the poorer classes swarm. They are, however, better clothed than the lower orders of most other countries; and there is beside an uni- formity in their costume, which is extremely imposing to strangers, who imagine, at first sight, that in neatness of person, as well as dignity of mien, they exceed all other Eu- ropeans. But it is not so in fact; for, not- withstanding the portly demeanour and ma-