A sequel to an essay on the yellow fever; principally intended to prove, by incontestable facts and important documents, that the fever, called bulam, or pestilential, has no existence as a distinct, or a contagious disease.

  • Bancroft, Edward, 1744-1821.
Date:
1817
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    year in which miasmatic fevers are uniformly *' m.ost 'pre- valent; and that between the tropics, its effects should only become prevalent at times and places, in which great numbers of strangers are brought by the occasions of war; and that it should then, contrary to every other known species of contagion, confine its ravages almost exclusively to those who are comparatively strangers,. leaving the native and seasoned inhabitants harmless, or only exposed to their ordinary remittents or intermittents. Little has indeed been said of any importation of con- tagion into Cadiz in 1813, although Sir James Fel- lowes mentions that one contagionist had no doubt of its having been imported, an opinion in which all other contagionists will naturally agree; yet there is no one, so far as I can discover, who has ventured even to hint at any particular place whence, or any vessel by which, the • * Dr. Carrie of Philadelphia, treating of the flialignant Yello^r Fever, says, to infer that the Yellow Fever is only a variety or higher grade of the indigenous intermittent (he ought to have added, remittent) fever of this country, because it generally oc- curs, progresses, and terminates at the same time of the year as the intermittent, is confounding or mistaking coincidents for causes. This observation however is by no means correct.—No person has supposed that one of these fevers, or co-incidents, was a cause of the other; but, beiniji co-incidents, it was very natural to presume that they result from one common cause : especially as, at pages 406—408 of my Essay, after a general review of the history of Yellow Fever, I have ascertained and stated the fact of its ex- hibiting all the characteristic mmrhs, which confessedly belong to -fevers from miasmata.