Anatomical, pathological and therapeutic researches on the yellow fever of Gibraltar of 1828 / by P. Ch. A. Louis, from observations taken by himself and M. Trousseau as members of the French Commission at Gibraltar ; translated from the manuscript by G.C. Shattuck.

  • Louis, P. C. A. (Pierre Charles Alexandre), 1787-1872.
Date:
1839
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    view of benefiting it. The study and analysis of the facts, could not be a joint production, as every one must be aware. I assumed this task, and devot- ed myself to it immediately on my return to Paris, so that the work now presented to the public has been completed nine years. M. Trousseau undertook to analyse the documents collected by the commission in relation to the origin and mode of propagation of the yellow fever of Gibraltar,* and to ascertain if any rigorous conclusions could be drawn in favor of contagion or of infection, those two modes of propa- gation of the disease, which still divide medical opinion. Circumstances have prevented M. Trousseau from completing this undertaking, nor have I been able to engage in it, so that the analysis which would naturally occupy a chapter in this work, is necessarily postponed. Happily our ignorance of the causes of many diseases does not destroy our interest in the study of their pathology. We must study symptoms, the his- tory, the termination, the duration, the treatment, and many other circumstances unconnected with etiology; and were we sure of the etiology of yel- * These documents were printed in 1830, and copies of them may be had of the bookseller, M. Bailli^re.